The tribulations of travel : Part 1

Having published “Three Kings – One Throne”,the secondbookin my trilogy, “Finn’s Legacy”, I decided to take a shortbreak from the eleventh century and fast forward seven hundred years to the American War of Independence.

As always,when researching for a novel, source material tempts one to getside-tracked. My putative storyincludes a journey in 1776, down the St Lawrence. I could not resist following this account by an English woman who made the journey in 1810 on a barge heavilyladen with pot...