Cyril Ionides bought an old Thames sailing barge and made it a home for his wife, the Mate, and their children among the creeks and saltings of the Essex coast. With his friend J. B. Atkins he tells how the barge was found and fitted out, and records the talk of barge skippers and longshoremen in their rich Essex dialect, with drawings by Arnold Bennett.
A charming salt-water idyll for anyone who has ever dreamed of living on a boat. Download the free EPUB.