title: The Water Road: An Odyssey by Narrowboat Through England's Waterways
author:  Paul Gogarty 
description: <DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Paul Gogarty has contributed to the <I>Daily Express</I>, <I>Daily Telegraph</I>, the <I>Guardian</I>, the <I>Sunday Times</I>, and <I>The Times.</I> He is travel editor for<I> Cosmopolitan</I> magazine and the author of <I>The Coast Road</I>.
zlib_text: Nick Corble has written over twenty-five books as well as over a hundred
  articles for the national and local press. Subjects have ranged from walking
  guides to the history of the English fairground, but he is perhaps best known
  for his works on the UK’s inland waterways system. These include titles such
  as _The Narrowboat Story_ , _Britain’s Canals: A Handbook_ and, with Allan
  Ford, a guide to living on the canals called, appropriately, _A Beginner’s
  Guide to Living on the Waterways_.
  
  His very first book, _Walking on Water_ , published in 2000, covered a trip
  down the inland waterways system on a battered ex-hire narrowboat from the
  northern tip of the canal system down to the south. This not only described
  the highs and lows of the journey itself, but also attempted to gauge the mood
  of the nation on the eve of the millennium. _Diagonal Walking_ replicates this
  approach, slicing through the nation, and trying to find out what makes it
  tick, this time on the eve of perhaps the most mo