The Canal Builders Quotes

“Sometimes, looking at the map of Great Britain, we are struck by the improbability of the place. That strangely fashioned land with its curious prongs and protuberances, like a slender-waisted old woman soaring on piggyback over the continent of Europe, seems suddenly to acquire the air of an improvisation.”
― Robert Payne, The Canal Builders: The Story of Canal Engineers Through The Ages