The Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads
"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland.
I acquired this boat from His Majesty's Custom House at Great Yarmouth for the princely sum of £2.00. The boat was one of the few items salvaged after her parent ship, the coal-ketch "Crocus", had foundered somewhere off Haisboro' on the Norfolk coast.
Then after getting this leaky old tub up to my moorings at Breydon, I set about the innumerable tasks to get "The Walrus" (as I named her) refurbished and back to some sort of sea (or Broads) worthy condition.
Once the work was completed and the "Walrus" was launched, then this (audio) story really begins ..."
... So while you're here, why not hop aboard and join Arthur Henry Patterson as he sails around Broadland, watching & describing the world & the wildlife going by while sailing at the best part of a slow rate of knots. Or else lug in a bit whilst he has a good old mardle with a riverside philosopher as well as the ghost of St. Benet's Abbey.
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who had a lifelong fascination and affinity with all aspects of the natural history of the Norfolk Broads. Often using the pen name of John Knowlittle, he wrote many books and contributed many articles to the local newspaper and to nature journals concerning his experiences with the flora and fauna of his local area.
(Summary created by TND using some of AHP's text)
Genre(s): Nature, Modern (20th C)
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 00 | Front Matter - Foreword, Introduction, etc | TND |
00:06:30 |
Play 01 | Chapter 1 - The Passing Of The "Crocus" | TND |
00:24:12 |
Play 02 | Chapter 2 - Our Ship Leaves Dock | TND |
00:22:18 |
Play 03 | Chapter 3 - And Now For Ranworth | TND |
00:25:15 |
Play 04 | Chapter 4 - In Pump-Mill Country | TND |
00:27:56 |
Play 05 | Chapter 5 - The Hickling Bitterns | TND |
00:26:04 |
Play 06 | Chapter 6 - A Riverside Philosopher | TND |
00:20:16 |
Play 07 | Chapter 7 - The Ghost Of The Abbey | TND |
00:25:08 |
Play 08 | Chapter 8 - Lusty Barton Bream | TND |
00:24:35 |
Play 09 | Chapter 9 - By Horning Town | TND |
00:22:12 |
Play 10 | Chapter 10 - Some Bure-Side Folk-Lore | TND |
00:22:59 |
Play 11 | Chapter 11 - Back Across Breydon | TND |
00:24:21 |
Play 12 | Chapter 12 - Breydon In 1755 | TND |
00:27:30 |
Play 13 | Chapter 13 - On Norwich River | TND |
00:24:11 |
Play 14 | Chapter 14 - By Willow-Tree Waters | TND |
00:22:49 |
Play 15 | Chapter 15 - Then Oulton and Home | TND |
00:21:33 |