Across Europe In A Motor Boat (1908)

Across Europe In A Motor Boat. A Chronicle Of The Adventures Of The Motor Boat Beaver On A Voyage Of Nearly Seven Thousand Miles Through Europe By Way Of The Seine The Rhine The Danube And The Black Sea. Written By Henry Cottrell Rowland (1875 - 1933) Is Also The Author Of In The Shadow The Wanderers Etc. Many Illustrations By Herbert Deland Williams. Published In New York In 1908. Well Written Story Of The Trials And Tribulations During A 7000 Mile Journey Throughout Europe To The Black Sea. Contents Chapter 1. The Beaver Chapter 2. Experimental Voyaging Chapter 3. Across The Channel Chapter 4. Boulogne To Paris Chapter 5. Locks And Canals Chapter 6. Through The Highlands Chapter 7. Into Germany Chapter 8. From The Rhine To The Danube Chapter 9. Along The River Chapter 10. Down The Danube Chapter 11. To The Sea Chapter 12. From Sulina Chapter 13. To Bourgas Chapter 14. A Storm In The Black Sea Chapter 15. The Wreck Of The Beaver The Publisher Has Copy-Edited This Book To Improve The Formatting Style And Accuracy Of The Text To Make It Readable. This Did Not Involve Changing The Substance Of The Text. Some Books Due To Age And Other Factors May Contain Imperfections. Since There Are Many Books Such As This One That Are Important And Beneficial To Literary Interests We Have Made It Digitally Available And Have Brought It Back Into Print For The Preservation Of Printed Works Of The Past. Making This Copy Very Readable List Of Illustrations Leaving Varna The Beaver Going Overboard At Limehouse London Thames Barges The Bargees . . . Asked Us To Give Them A Tow In Cruising Trim: Pomeroy At The Wheel London Bridge Ramsgate Harbor Locking Through At Havre A Lock Keeper A Small Rushing Object Shot Ahead Rouen The Seine From Rouen To Maisons Lafitte Is Charmingly Picturesque Mantes As We Came Up The River At The Clubhouse Landing Isle De Puteaux Through Stately Avenues Of Grand Old Trees It Creeps Through Wooded Valleys A Fair Éclusière The Intimate Charm Of This Waterway The Black Mouth Of The Tunnel Opened Before Us Like The Entrance Of The Styx Where The Canal Enters The Moat Of The City Wall At Toul At Toul We Crossed The Moselle On A Big Stone Bridge The Canal Wanders And Loses Itself In A Pretty Pastoral Country At Noon Of That Day We Arrived At The German Frontier The Whole Effect Of The Place Reminded One Much Of Japan We Lay In The Heart Of Strassburg Powerful Towboats Plowing Up Against The Swift Current Onward It Goes Skirting Kingdoms As It First Skirted Hamlets Winding Tortuously Between High Thickly Wooded Hills Each Day Tells A New And Changeful Story Just Below Regensburg We Passed 'Walhalla’ “ The Scenery Is Of A Delicious Half-Wild Half-Pastoral Beauty The River Scenery Is Very Beautiful The Water Was Clear The Scenery Was Charming Less Than Half A Mile Upstream There Was A Cable Ferryboat A Village On The Upper Danube Budapest Some Of These Grim Eyrees Are Still In A Splendid State Of Preservation Hungarian Castle On The Lower Danube A Mediaeval Turkish Fortress On The Danube Near Ilok We Found The Whole Danube To Be An Aviary Of Water Fowl A Series Of Precipitous Rocky Gorges The Iron Gate Lofty Precipitous Walls Of Granite An Old Fortress On The Danube Fleets Of Great Lumbering Vessels” A Sailing Vessel Of The Lower Danube Shipping Propeller Blades At Sulina Varna Roumania A Turkish Schooner At Varna Towing Behind The Kelet “'Snaked' Through The Water At Eleven Knots A Sea Broke Under The Boat And Flung Her Up On The Beach In The End We Accepted An Offer For The Wreck Salving The Motor Forlorn And Forsaken She Looked With Her Brave Little Bow Shoved Defiantly At The Gray Cliffs