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    Too Narrow to Swing a Cat: Going Nowhere in Particular on the English Waterways

    By Steve Haywood

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    She was particularly taken with the small narrow ledges that ran along either side of the boat. For a cat, four inches is an airport runway – she could dance a Moonwalk along them on her two hind legs, juggling at the same time.'

    Casting aside the road maps that show the country as a web of interlocking motorways, Steve escapes to a different England on his narrowboat and cruises slowly through a landscape unchanged for centuries, visiting picturesque towns and canal festivals. But the new member of his crew, Kit, is an untidy bundle of fur with all the attitude you would expect from a ‘sarf Lunnun’ cat, and determined to keep him on his toes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale Publishers Ltd
    Release dateMay 9, 2011
    ISBN9780857652843
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    Too Narrow to Swing a Cat: Going Nowhere in Particular on the English Waterways
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    Steve Haywood

    Steve Haywood is a writer, journalist and filmmaker, and the author of five previous waterways books. He's been a devoted inland waterways narrowboater for fifty years and has written a monthly column for the magazine Canal Boat for more than ten years. He is author of Tales from the Tillerman (Adlard Coles).

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