The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Victorian Guide to East Anglia's Waterways, Boating Routes, Villages, and Wild MarshesBy G. Christopher Davies
Length3h 32m
About this audiobook
The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk is both a practical guide and a richly observant portrait of East Anglia's waterways. Written in the clear, serviceable prose of the late Victorian topographical handbook, it combines itineraries, navigational advice, notes on villages and churches, and attentive descriptions of marsh, reed-bed, river, and broad. Its literary context belongs to the era when regional travel writing, natural history, and leisure boating were converging into a new appreciation of the Norfolk Broads as a distinctive cultural and ecological landscape. G. Christopher Davies was closely associated with the popular discovery of the Broads, writing not as a detached compiler but as an informed traveller, sportsman, and observer of local life. His familiarity with boating routes, angling, wildfowl, and riverside communities gives the work an authority that reflects both personal experience and the period's growing enthusiasm for domestic exploration. The book also reveals a preservationist impulse, valuing a watery world already vulnerable to modern change. Readers interested in regional history, Victorian travel literature, boating, or the environmental imagination of the nineteenth century will find this handbook especially rewarding. It remains a valuable guide to how the Broads were seen, used, and celebrated at a formative moment in their modern identity.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
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Audiobook details
GenreTravel
Length3 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
24CANTLEY.
2The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk
25REEDHAM.
3INTRODUCTION.
26HADDISCOE,
4CHAPTER I. the “broad” district .
27SOMERLEYTON.
5CHAPTER II. down the yare. norwich to reedham .
28OULTON BROAD.
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6CHAPTER III. REEDHAM TO YARMOUTH.
29WROXHAM.
7CHAPTER IV. yarmouth to acle .
30COLTISHALL.
8CHAPTER V. acle to wroxham .
31ORMESBY.
9CHAPTER VI. wroxham broad .
32MARTHAM.
10CHAPTER VII. wroxham to coltishall .
33POTTER HEIGHAM.
11CHAPTER VIII. up the ant, to barton and stalham .
34CATFIELD.
12CHAPTER IX. womack broad .
35STALHAM.
13CHAPTER X. hickling broad .
36ACLE
14CHAPTER XI. horsey mere and somerton broad .
37NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK FISHERIES ACT.
15CHAPTER XII. back to yarmouth .
38TABLE OF RIVER DISTANCES.
16CHAPTER XIII. yarmouth to somerleyton .
39TIDES.
17CHAPTER XIV. from somerleyton to beccles .
40FISHING GENERALLY.
18CHAPTER XV. oulton broad .
41ROACH.
19CHAPTER XVI. ormesby and fritton .
42BREAM.
20APPENDIX. railway access to fishing stations .
43YACHTING.
21WHITLINGHAM.
44SHOOTING AND SKATING.
22BRUNDALL
45FAUNA OF THE BROADS.
23BUCKENHAM FERRY.
46Memorable Quotes
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