Author: Pilkington, Roger Illust by David Knight:
Title: Small Boat on the Meuse.
Description: London, Macmillan, 1967 Hard cover brown cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, VG, unclipped dust jacket, minor wear, VG, contents clean and bright, line drawings by David Knight, pp214. "The Meuse is a river of such wild beauty and unexpected interest that one does not need to be a boatman to share the author's delight as he moves upstream, lock by lock, pausing to learn the secret of the Devil's Hole, or why Poilvache ruin is haunted, or to see the glow-worms light up the rampart of Mouzon, or to talk with the Belgian lock-keeper who once came to England as a boy scout, and the French one who longed to be an opera singer..."

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