From the longest canal tunnel to the shortest lock, the Canal and River Trust have delved into the fascinating world of waterways ...
The Thames by Jonathan Schneer Yale, 360 pp., $35 AS RIVERS GO, ENGLAND’S Thames can’t compete with the epic length of the Nile or the muddy grandeur of the Mississippi. At only 215 miles, it isn’t ...
In Gloucestershire, England, “bore rider” Ben Rogers surfs the river Severn, one of the UK’s longest rivers, which runs several hundred kilometres from mid-Wales to the Bristol Channel. He rides what ...