Through Europe at Four Knots: A Tale of Boating Mayhem and Family Adventure

by Les Horn

A family odyssey from England to the Aegean through the inland waterways of Europe. A mix of a writer's gifts of humour and description with a historian's eye for Europe's epochal upheaval of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071361375
• ISBN13: 9780071361378
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Snail's pace sailboat trip from England to Greece

Sweet little travel adventure tale. Les Horn navigates Europe's inland waterways from England to Greece on a 24-foot sailboat. He manages to show us this family farce (his wife and 2 preteen kids come along for the ride) at the same time he shares his vivid observations of central and Eastern Europe's varied landscape, history, and people.Good armchair traveler material.

Delightful Family Adventure

An avid armchair traveller, I am always on the lookout for books of travel adventure. This book was a delightful addition to my library. The book chronicles the Horn families' voyage by boat from the North Sea through the canals of Europe to the Black Sea and the Agean. The author is adept at chronicalling the interesting details and amusing incidents that allow the reader to feel if s/he is along for the voyage. Rather than just writing a travelogue, Horn records the trials and tribulations of daily family life in a small boat, their tears and their triumphs. Their adventures are sometimes amusing, sometimes hair-raising, but always interesting. This is a book that I will read again.