Dimensions
129 x 198 x 19mm
Charles Timoney can't resist a challenge. So when, after a few glasses of Champagne, he bets his friends that he'll travel the entire length of the Seine in a rowing boat he's been building in his garage, he can't back down. His English honour is at stake, after all.
It is a journey that will take him from source to sea, via stubborn cattle, truffle-hunting terriers, amorous carp fishermen, Roman goddesses, drunken choirs, river policemen and a cheese so smelly it's forbidden to take it on public transport. Along the way, he discovers a France that most of us don't see, and finds there's nothing quite like messing about in a boat (or, failing that, a steamer, Batobus, inflatable and amphibious car . . .).
