If you can excuse the eccentric cover and the sometimes too detailed description of family and friends, the first half of this book is a very readable account of a passage through the French canals. In the second half the author returns via the coast to La Roche Bernard, but fails to pass through the Brittany canals owing to the depth of his boat. Written with the yachtsman in mind (he has his small sailboat de-masted on the Seine and the mast shipped south for his return journey), it also offers good general advice for the British in France. His route takes him south via the Burgundy Canal to the bottom of the Rhone, then west across the Canal du Midi and its adjoining waterways.
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