Narrow dog to Indian River
By: Terry Darlington
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781407425696
Subjects: Travel; Canal-boats; Large type books; Description and travel
Description: Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington and their whippet, Jim, to retire to a comfortable corner of their favourite public house. But no, they looked to the New World for their extraordinary new adventure. No-one has ever sailed an English narrowboat in the US before, for reasons that become clear during the nine-month voyage of the Phyllis May - including thirty-mile sea crossings, blasting heat, tornadoes, hurricanes and all manner of intimidating wildlife. But the real danger comes from the Good Ole Boys and Girls of the Deep South. Colonels, bums, captains, planters, heroes, drunks - they all want to meet the Brits on the painted boat and their thin dog - and take them home and party them to death ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Bantam.