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Afloat : a memoir

Couchman, Danie2019
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Danie Couchman grew up on the move, her family never staying still long enough for her to say where she's from. At twenty-five, and living in her seventeenth home, she finds herself drowning in the rush of London life, and makes an impulsive decision: to buy a narrowboat and make it her home. Surrounded by an eclectic and itinerant community in the uncharted territory of the capital's urban wilderness, Danie becomes fully immersed in this hidden world. Each day onboard her boat Genesis is an adventure full of disaster and magic. Over five years of living off-grid, nomadic Danie learns to survive the many highs and lows of boat life alone, keeping herself, and her steel home, afloat.
Main title:
Afloat : a memoir / Danie Couchman ; illustrations by Eleanor Taylor.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Quadrille, 2019.
Collation:
194 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781787133488 (hbk)
Dewey class:
643.2092643.2920COU920 COU643.209
LC class:
GV777.7
Local class:
643.209920.1
Language:
English
BRN:
2458418
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