‘The Water Road’, Wrote by Paul Gogarty

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‘The Water Road’, Wrote by Paul Gogarty

A Narrowboat Odyssey Through England

‘Paul Gogarty manages brilliantly to convey a boatman’s total euphoria in his delightful account of a four-month narrowboat idyll… his enthusiasm bounces off every page and I was completely mesmerised. VAL HENNESSY, CRITICS CHOICE IN THE DAILY MAIL.

‘…entertaining, informative and through-provoking… The book is a classic.’ Margaret Cornish, Waterways World.

The Water Road is the story of a magical journey through backdoor England. To escape the hurrysickness of modern life, acclaimed travel writer and TV presenter Paul Gogarty disappears for four months into a maze of canals linking the Thames with the Severn, Mersey and Trent.

Here he discovers a world no less enchanted than Alice’s – a secret network as powerful as ley lines.

On this journey across the face of England – a hidden garden flashed with Kingfishers and colourful narrowboats, glorious sunshine and sleeting rain – the author weaves a mesmerising tale packed with drama, hilarious encounters and illuminating reflection as he revels in the canal network’s second gold age following its century of neglect.

The Water Road is both a celebration of a secret England and a powerful personal odyessy, in which the author marks his own rite of passage.

Paul Gogarty is an award-winning travel writer contributing regularly to the Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Guardian and Daily Express, as well as numerous magazines. Currently travel editor of Cosmopolitan, from 1992 to 2001 he was chief travel writer at the Daily Telegraph and for three years was a regular presenter on BBC1’s Holiday programme.

Gogarty, Paul. (2003). The Water Road. Great Britain, Robson Books.

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