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Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the engaging and humorous story of author Doris Coppell whose love of boats and sailing, begun early on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, led her to spend many wonderful years canalling on Britain's waterways.Doris recounts her many adventures exploring England's amazing waterways. This resilient la
This is the engaging and humorous story of author Doris Coppell whose love of boats and sailing, begun early on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, led her to spend many wonderful years canalling on Britain's waterways.Doris recounts her many adventures exploring England's amazing waterways. This resilient lady has been cold, depressed, exhausted, anxious, bilious, blown backwards, blinded in one eye, completely enveloped in black smoke and almost shipwrecked. On the other hand, she has experienced hilarious situations, colourful characters, friendly conversations, engineering marvels, great British canalside pubs, beautiful remote moorings and moments of great contentment. She invites the reader to come aboard Salidha, Maori and Adagio and to discover the true meanings of 'locks, pounds, gate paddles, buttys, Tom Puddings and gongoalers'.
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