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2) Barges
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, early models, major parts, and jobs of barges.
3) Snowy
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
When the other children bring their pets to school, Rachel feels left out because she can't bring in the horse that pulls the barge on which she lives.
4) Offshore
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the east coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.
Author
Publisher
Mcfarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations. Dominick bought a Baltic trader, and found this would be his career. Twenty years elapsed between the first days of the barge and the last day of the Baltic."--Provided by publisher."
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In three series filmed over six years, Timothy Spall Somewhere at Sea begins the odyssey that Timothy and his wife Shane embarked upon to circumnavigate Britain in their Dutch barge, The Princess Matilda. Waring: viewer discretion is advised for coarse language.
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 269
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The novel Offshore limns the marginal existence of an eccentric assortment of barge dwellers on the Thames in the early 1960s, a group of misfits who are drawn to life on the muddy river in exile from the world of the landlocked. Human Voices takes us behind the scenes at the BBC during World War II, as world-weary directors and nubile young assistants attempt to save Britain's heritage and keep Britons calm in the face of a feared German invasion....