The Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads


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"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland.

I acquired this boat from His Majesty's Custom House at Great Yarmouth for the princely sum of £2.00. The boat was one of the few items salvaged after her parent ship, the coal-ketch "Crocus", had foundered somewhere off Haisboro' on the Norfolk coast.

Then after getting this leaky old tub up to my moorings at Breydon, I set about the innumerable tasks to get "The Walrus" (as I named her) refurbished and back to some sort of sea (or Broads) worthy condition.

Once the work was completed and the "Walrus" was launched, then this (audio) story really begins ..."

... So while you're here, why not hop aboard and join Arthur Henry Patterson as he sails around Broadland, watching & describing the world & the wildlife going by while sailing at the best part of a slow rate of knots. Or else lug in a bit whilst he has a good old mardle with a riverside philosopher as well as the ghost of St. Benet's Abbey.
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who had a lifelong fascination and affinity with all aspects of the natural history of the Norfolk Broads. Often using the pen name of John Knowlittle, he wrote many books and contributed many articles to the local newspaper and to nature journals concerning his experiences with the flora and fauna of his local area.

(Summary created by TND using some of AHP's text)
(6 hr 7 min)

Capítulos

Front Matter - Foreword, Introduction, etc 6:30 Leído por TND
Chapter 1 - The Passing Of The "Crocus" 24:12 Leído por TND
Chapter 2 - Our Ship Leaves Dock 22:18 Leído por TND
Chapter 3 - And Now For Ranworth 25:15 Leído por TND
Chapter 4 - In Pump-Mill Country 27:56 Leído por TND
Chapter 5 - The Hickling Bitterns 26:04 Leído por TND
Chapter 6 - A Riverside Philosopher 20:16 Leído por TND
Chapter 7 - The Ghost Of The Abbey 25:08 Leído por TND
Chapter 8 - Lusty Barton Bream 24:35 Leído por TND
Chapter 9 - By Horning Town 22:12 Leído por TND
Chapter 10 - Some Bure-Side Folk-Lore 22:59 Leído por TND
Chapter 11 - Back Across Breydon 24:21 Leído por TND
Chapter 12 - Breydon In 1755 27:30 Leído por TND
Chapter 13 - On Norwich River 24:11 Leído por TND
Chapter 14 - By Willow-Tree Waters 22:49 Leído por TND
Chapter 15 - Then Oulton and Home 21:33 Leído por TND