Description
Book Synopsis''A colourful and comprehensive guide to life on the waterways. Practical, pretty and accessible, it''s charmingly designed while providing excellent advice.''
BBC Countryfile Magazine
Full-time life on a narrowboat is a novelty for so many of us, and is endlessly fascinating. How do people downsize their lives and belongings into what looks like a large, crayon-coloured floating toy-box? Narrowboat Life answers all the questions we''ve wanted to ask about the ins and outs of liveaboard life on the inland waterways.
The book is filled with beautiful, enthralling photography of the waterways themselves, the narrowboats that occupy them and, most importantly, every nook and cranny of their insides. Should you become seduced, the author gives solid hands-on advice about how to make a narrowboat (or widebeam, cruiser or small Dutch barge) your home.
Accompanying these absorbing images, the playful and always informative text satisfies our curiosity
Trade Review
It is a lovely colourful book, just as the life of a liveaboard boater can seem to be, viewed by the person on the bank. The photography, as you would expect of a professional image maker, is quite stunning. -- Colin Warring * Towpath Talk Review *
The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of images of the waterways. * National Association of Boat Owners *
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 What’s it like... living on a narrowboat? 2 How safe is it? 3 Is it cold in the winter? Step aboard... A recycled, repurposed narrowboat 4 How much did you pay for your narrowboat? 5 How green is living on a boat really? - Green Tips: A greener galley - Green Tips: Rudimentary to radical recycling - Green Tips: Eco Energy Step aboard... A narrowboat designed for escape 6 Did you paint it yourself? 7 Does he (the cat, dog, parrot) live on the boat? Step aboard... A well-read ark 8 How much does it cost to live on a narrowboat Step aboard... A widebeam cabinet of curiosities 9 Four canny questions... about continuously cruising - How do you receive post? - How do you see a doctor? - How do you use the internet? - How do you hold down a job? Glossary Index
