Landscape with canals

The Landscape Trilogy #2

by L.T.C. Rolt

1978 reprint, shelf wear to price clipped dust jacket, bookseller's marks, foxing to page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

188 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L.T.C. Rolt) was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways.

Reviews

[Stephen Dawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second volume in the three that comprise the autobiography of L.T.C. Rolt, and as the name suggests, it is the one that focusses most closely on the canals. It is an interesting read, but a frustrating one too. He makes the wise decision as an autobiographer not to reveal too much about elements of his personal life (notably his marriage break up) or his split with the Inland Waterways Association. He makes the wise choice as an author not to replicate material he has already published in other volumes.

As a result, however, this book, while still being an interesting account of a complex person with a varied life, feels distinctly incomplete.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book, I read it in then 1980s and it was even better on the second reading.