The Boats of the Somerset Levels
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The Boats of the Somerset Levels

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eBook - ePub

The Boats of the Somerset Levels

About this book

Flat-bottom craft have always been fascinating, largely because they appear so simple in their construction at first glance, made by the farmers and fishermen who used them. Beneath this facade, however, they are examples of boatbuilding at its most complex. In Britain, the best examples can be found in the boats of the Somerset Levels and Moors, rivers and coastal waters. The Somerset Levels and Moors is an area shrouded in both mystery and mythology: a world of water with traditions reaching back into prehistory and a place of legends, such as its associations with Avalon. In this area criss-crossed with shallow rivers and man-made waterways, flat-bottomed boats were until relatively recently the ideal way of getting around and Mike Smylie, with the help of John Nash of the Watchet Boat Museum, takes us through six of them, as well as providing a tribute to the people who built and used them, and those who preserve them now they have fallen out of every-day use.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction and Acknowledgements
  3. 1. Background, Definition and Evolution Of Type
  4. 2. The Turf Boat
  5. 3. The Withy Boat
  6. 4. The River Boat
  7. 5. The Sea or Gore Boat
  8. 6. The Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon Boats
  9. 7. The Bridgwater Barges
  10. 8. The People Who Built, Sailed, Fished and Generally Used Them
  11. 9. The Watchet Boat Museum
  12. Bibliography