World Canals

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WORLD CANALS
Inland Navigation Past and Present
Charles Hadfield
The use of rivers and the making of canals for transport and pleasure goes further back in time than the c2000BC Mr Hadfield has chosen as a convenient starting date. Because of this, many people consider inland waterways to be an old-fashioned way of carrying goods and passengers — until they see for themselves the freight traffic of rivers like the Mississippi, Rhine, Volga or Yangtse, and canals such as the Kiel, Amsterdam-Rhine, Albert, Welland or Panama, or indeed the pleasure craft that pass England's Stoke Brueme, the Dutch, meers or along America's Atlantic Waterway or Canada's Rideau.
From Portugal to Brazil, from Belgium to India, the United States to Italy, the Netherlands to Zambia and China to Romania, canals or river navigations have recently been opened, or are currently being built or enlarged. Our own times are also seeing the revival, and indeed restoration, of smaller canals as cruising... Tovább

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WORLD CANALS
Inland Navigation Past and Present
Charles Hadfield
The use of rivers and the making of canals for transport and pleasure goes further back in time than the c2000BC Mr Hadfield has chosen as a convenient starting date. Because of this, many people consider inland waterways to be an old-fashioned way of carrying goods and passengers — until they see for themselves the freight traffic of rivers like the Mississippi, Rhine, Volga or Yangtse, and canals such as the Kiel, Amsterdam-Rhine, Albert, Welland or Panama, or indeed the pleasure craft that pass England's Stoke Brueme, the Dutch, meers or along America's Atlantic Waterway or Canada's Rideau.
From Portugal to Brazil, from Belgium to India, the United States to Italy, the Netherlands to Zambia and China to Romania, canals or river navigations have recently been opened, or are currently being built or enlarged. Our own times are also seeing the revival, and indeed restoration, of smaller canals as cruising waterways, and national parks. Simultaneously, an astonishing range of working craft is being developed to meet today's and tomorrow's needs.
Charles Hadfield, author of British Canals (7th ed), has here written what is believed to be the first book to outline the story of inland navigation aroimd the worid. Well-illustrated and supplied with maps, World Canals offers enthusiast, student and general reader alike continually interesting and sometimes surprising insights into die pattern diat carriage by inland water — oldest and yet in some ways most modem of modes, eternal tortoise of the transport world — has imposed upon time and space.
The Author
Charles Hadfield has devoted much of his life to the chronicling of the story of Britain's inland waterways. Most of the volumes in 'The Canals of the British Isles' series have been written by him; volume I British Canals has been referred to as 'The Pevsner of British Canals', and the seventh edition of this impressive work was brought out in 1984 to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. Other works include Introducing Inland Waterways and Waterway Sights To See. Charles Hadfield now lives in Gloucestershire. Vissza