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Table of Contents

"You discover so much more about a country when traveling its waterways."    - Payne

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: In Love with Quaint
  • Chapter 2: Common Courtesy
  • Chapter 3: The Lockside Community
  • Chapter 4: The Parish Church
  • Chapter 5: Dramatis Personae
  • Chapter 6: The Sporting Life
  • Chapter 7: Crooked Everything
  • Chapter 8: Tradition
  • Chapter 9: Lesson in Patience
  • Chapter 10: Enchanting Canal
  • Chapter 11: Expressions of Faith
  • Chapter 12: Departing Illyria
  • Chapter 13: In Tyrant's Den
  • Chapter 14: Olga
  • Chapter 15: Grappling with the Tidal Thames
  • Chapter 16: Sightseeing from One Inch above the Water