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Narrow Dog to Carcassonne
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Narrow Dog to Carcassonne Compact disc - 2007

by Terry Darlington; Read by Steve Hodson


Summary

The hilarious true story of two pensioners and their whippet who sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France in a narrowboat ...'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim.On the Phyllis May you dive through six-foot waves in the Channel, are swept down the terrible Rhone, and fight for your life in a storm among the flamingos of the Camargue.You meet the French nobody meets - poets, captains, historians, drunks, bargees, men with guns, scholars, madmen - they all want to know the people on the painted boat and their narrow dog.You visit the France nobody knows - the backwaters of Flanders, the canals beneath Paris, the heavenly Yonne, the lost Burgundy Canal, the islands of the Saone, and the forbidden ways to the Mediterranean.Aliens, dicks, trolls, vandals, gongoozlers, killer fish and the walking dead all stand between our three innocents and their goal - many-towered Carcassonne.

From the publisher

Terry and Monica Darlington are intrepid pensioners who made the surprising decision to sail their canal narrowboat Phillis May, 1600 miles across France and down to the Mediterranean, accompanied only by their whippet. 'Narrow Dog To Carcassonne' is a true story of high adventure.

Details

  • Title Narrow Dog to Carcassonne
  • Author Terry Darlington; Read by Steve Hodson
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 10
  • Volumes 10
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ulverscroft
  • Date January 2007
  • Large Print Yes
  • ISBN 9780753126844 / 0753126842
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.73 x 7.58 x 1.67 in (19.63 x 19.25 x 4.24 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 910.4