2:01pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010
AUTHOR Derek Brown will be visiting Nantwich Bookshop on Saturday from 10.30am to 11.30am to sign copies of his book Up the Rhine and Down the Danube.
The work is an account of a memorable voyage undertaken by the author and his friend and ‘first officer’ Anto, from the Netherlands, through inland Europe and out to Istanbul by river.
Portraying the Danube as a ‘c-road’ compared with the motorway of the mighty Rhine, the author describes his entertaining and exhilarating journey.
The trip, which took two and a half years, although actual travelling time was only 67 days, saw them travel 3,750 kilometres, during which time they went through 94 locks.
On their journey they had to contend with gales, fog and rain, strict and bribe-hungry officials and barges that dwarfed the tiny Dutch cruiser.
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