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SUMMER READING
Water Gypsies: A history of life on Britain’s rivers and canals
by Julian Dutton
This engrossing study of life on the water looks, as the title suggests, at both rivers and canals. We are introduced to boat life and boating families from medieval times onwards – and as author Julian Dutton explains, there are several known unbroken lines of boat families from the Middle Ages onwards, whose boating connections stretch right through to the present day; the roles may have changed over the years but the link with boats and water has remained.
Many of us will surely have wandered along the canal bank on a sunny day and wished for a life on the water –
