Just touches the surface. Many more canal-related books are available,
including many guides to individual canals. Many titles are available
from the
Inland Waterways Association On-Line shop.
Hind and Hart has provided a page of
bookshops,
covering both bookshops convenient to canals and waterways, as well as
canal and waterway related bookshops, wherever they may be located.
See Greg Chapman's
Waterways Guides for unofficial Pearson's Guides Updates
Waterways World Canal Guides
Oxford
Kennet and Avon
At Waterways Guides,
Greg Chapman reviews a number of locally produced guides, as well as providing
unofficial updates for Imray's Fens waterways guides.
General Information
The European Waterways - A Manual for First Time Users
by Marian Martin.
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical. ISBN 0-7136-4356-0; 2003
by David Edwards-May; 7th edition;
UK ISBN 0 85288 472 9; Pub.: Imray; Reviewed in Waterways World Mar. 03
Through the French Canals
by Philip Bristow; 10th edition (Jan 2003); Pub.: Adlard Coles Nautical
Waterway Routes Through France
compiled by Jane Cumberlidge
Inland Waterways of Ireland
by Jane Cumberlidge;
UK ISBN 0 85288 424 9; Pub.: Imray; Reviewed in Waterways World Oct 02
A Boaters Guide to Boating
by Chris Deuchar;
a mixture of old and new waterway techniques. Published Oct 97.
Reviewed in Waterways World Feb. 98.
ISBN 0-9531512-0-4. (Chris is a participant in the canals mailing
list/uk.rec.waterways newsgroup.) Contact Chris, for costs and other
details via his publication page at
Chris Deuchar's Books ...
Illustrated History of Canal and River Navigations
by Edward W.Paget-Tomlinson; Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press;
Date Published: Mar 1993 [Dr. Sean Neill says "covers canals, structures, boats, carrying companies etc etc. -
obviously with limited detail but enough for most people".]
In planning a cruise, most people use one of the software options above.
While cruising, most people use one of the canals guides listed above (all
which contain detailed maps). However, if you insist on having a map, there
is an excellent selection available from the
Inland Waterways Association On-Line shop.
However if you are driving in your car, and hope to drive to a particular
point on a canal, then you have a different problem. The best choice for
this at the time of this writing (end 2006) is the Philip's Navigator Road Atlas
Britain.
Videos
Please note that there are three video standards in which waterways videos may be
found: PAL, SECAM, and NTSC; they are incompatible. Be sure you know which standard is in use in your
country, and be sure the cassette you are getting is in the correct format. Just
saying "VHS" is NOT sufficient! (An alternative is to get a cassette in the "wrong"
format, and pay a service to convert it, which can be costly.)
Classic Canal Videos
- videos and DVDs taken on the river Ribble and the Ribble Link
