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摘要

It's often been said, when things aren't going terribly well, that "worse things happen at sea" - and if the stories in this book are anything to go by, most inland boaters will sincerely hope that it's true when compared to the canals. There are tales of shipwrecks (including one which was the inspiration for a Shakespeare play), ghost ships, disappearances, piracy, desperate crew cast adrift on the ocean, attacks by killer whales and worse. Take a copy to read and be thankful that such things don't happen on the waterways, and that not many shipwrecked canal boaters have ever resorted to cannibalism (even on the northern BCN).