Kiwi Alfoat : Adventures Canalling on Britain's Unique Waterways
Author(s): Doris Coppell
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'.
Product Information
Doris Coppell was born in Auckland in 1923. Her love of boats and sailing began on the Waitemata Harbour at an early age. She joined the New Zealand navy in 1943 and met and married a Yeoman of Signals from a visiting British destroyer. The couple settled in Nottinghamshire, England, but Doris was sadly widowed only six months after the birth of their daughter in 1957. Ten years later a second marriage took her to Yorkshire where she and her husband spent many years exploring the canals together and, finally, separately. Eventually, she leased a canal-side property from British Waterways, maintained a narrow boat, Penelope, and continued canalling until her return to New Zealand in 1990. Doris now lives on Auckland?s North Shore.
General Fields
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- : spub
- : spub
- : 228mm X 150mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Doris Coppell
- : Paperback
- : 250
- : Black and white photographs
