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L. T. C. Rolt was born at Chester in 1910. After his education at Cheltenham College he embarked on am engineering career, until he decided to turn to writing. Among his many publications were biographies of Thomas Telford and George and Robert Stevenson (both published by Penguin). Mr Rolt died in 1974.

In 1783 the Montgolfier brothers made history with the first hot-air balloon flight, and so began the era of flight and man's love affair with the skies.

First published in 1944, this book tells the story of how L.T.C. Rolt and his wife fitted out their boat, Cressy, as a home, and journied some 400 miles along the waterways of the Midlands. Rolt recalls the boatmen and their craft and celebrates the English countryside through which they passed.

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Landscape with Figures: The Final Part of his Autobiography

Landscape with Canals: The Second Part of His Autobiography

Landscape with Machines: The First Part of his Autobiography

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A brilliant, perceptive biography of the father and son who initiated the age of the railway.

At 19, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was in charge, under his father, of an engineering work that is the wonder of Europe: the Thames tunnel, completed in 1843. As well as his interest in canals he also turned his attention to neglcted railways and set up the first organisation to save and run a railway with a mainly volunteer workforce.

First published in 1944, and now reissued with new black-and-white illustrations and a foreword by Jo Bell, Canal Laureate, this book has become a classic on its subject, and may be said to have started a revival of interest in the English waterways.

Railway adventure