Back Door to Byzantium
To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of EuropeBy Bill and Laurel Cooper
224 pp. 30 line drawings. 1997. Paperback. $17.95
ISBN 1 57409 043 7
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The eagerly awaited conclusion to the Cooper's Watersteps trilogy recounts their award-winning voyage across the North Sea, eastbound through flooded France, down the Rhine in full spate, through the new Rhein-Main-Donau Kanal, and down the Danube to the Black Sea.
After contending with floods, whirlpools, and groundings, the Coopers are cast off by vandals in Germany, swept away by the irresistable current of the flooding Danube, put in harm's way by bureaucratic delays in Hungary, boarded by Serbian patrols, harassed by diesel pirates, and then trapped by a legal morass in Romania and the Ukraine, where sailing a private boat is not yet among the citizens' rights.
About the Author:
Bill and Laurel Cooper sold up and embarked on a wandering life more than 20 years ago. The authors of numerous books, they now cruise aboard their converted barge HOSANNA.
Also by Bill and Laurel Cooper:
- Sell Up and Sail
Taking the Ulysses Option
- Watersteps Round Europe
From Greece to England by Barge
- Watersteps Through France
To the Camargue by Canal