Book description
Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you might expect
pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington and their whippet, Jim, to
retire to a comfortable corner of their favourite pub. But no, they
looked to the New World for an extraordinary new adventure...
No-one had ever sailed an English narrowboat in the US before, for
reasons that became abundantly clear during the 9-month voyage of the
Phyllis May - including 30-mile sea crossings, blasting heat,
tornadoes, hurricanes and all manner of intimidating wildlife. But the
real danger came from the locals: the Good Ole Boys and Girls of the
Deep South. Colonels, bums, captains, planters, heroes, drunks,
gongoozlers, dancing dicks and beautiful spies - they all want
to meet the Brits on the narrow painted boat and their thin dog and
take them home and party them to death. Beautifully written, lovingly
observed, and very funny, Narrow Dog to Indian River takes you
on a dangerous, surprising and always entertaining journey as a
thousand miles of the little-known South-East Seaboard unfold at six
miles an hour- the golden marshes of the Carolinas, the incomparable
cities of Charleston and Savannah, and the lost arcadias of Georgia
and Florida.
TERRY DARLINGTON was brought up in Pembroke Dock. He moved to
Stone, Staffordshire, where he founded Research Associates, the market
research company, and Stone Master Marathoners, the running club. Like
many Welshmen he is ill at ease with practical matters and known to
linger in public houses. He likes boating but doesn't know much about it.
MONICA DARLINGTON's father was a gardener and her mother a
housemaid. She was beauty queen of Brecon and Radnor, has a 1st class
degree, has run 30 marathons, and leaps tall buildings with a single
bound. She quite likes boating.
BRYNULA GREAT EXPECTATIONS (JIM) is sprung from a long line
of dogs with ridiculous names. Cowardly, thieving and disrespectful,
he hates boating.
