num_pages: 150
description: A collection of high quality photographs taken during the 1940s and early 1950s of members of the close knit community who ran boats through the canals of the English Midlands. They show people at work and at leisure and evoke the shape of the world they lived in. Rolt trained with the community during World War II and remained with it; she provides captions explaining the significance of the activity and often identifying people, boats, or landmarks. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: A Canal People: The Photographs of Robert Longden
titlecomplete: A Canal People: The Photographs of Robert Longden
publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd