Narrow Dog to Carcassonne (34 page)
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The Kennel Club Whippet Breed Standard
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Extract from “If” from
The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse
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Safety Guidance for Small Boat Passage of the Severn Estuary
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Extract from
1940—1944
,
la Vie dans l’Audomarois sous l’Occupation
by Raymond Dufay, published by l’Imprimerie de l’Indépendant in 1990 and translated by Terry Darlington, used by kind permission of Mme. Dufay.
Extract from “Ballade de celui qui chanta dans les supplices” from
La Diane Française
by Louis Aragon, published by Éditions Seghers in 1945 and translated by Terry Darlington, used by kind permission of Éditions Robert Laffont/Seghers/ Julliard.
Extract from “Je Suis Comme Je Suis” from
Paroles
by Jacques Prévert, © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, and translated by Terry Darlington.
Prière pour Aller au Paradis avec les Anes” from
Le Deuil des Primevères
by Francis Jammes, published by Mercure de France in 1901 and translated by Terry Darlington, used by kind permission of Mercure de France.
Memoir of D-Day in France by Georges Berger used by kind permission of the author.
Extract from “Le Cimetière Marin” by Paul Valéry, © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, and translated by Terry Darlington.
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Collected Poems
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About the Author
Following the publication of
Narrow Dog to Carcassonne
, Terry Darlington, his wife, Monica, and their whippet Jim planned to sail the
Phyllis May
down the Intracoastal Waterway from Virginia to Florida—an adventure which, should they survive it, will be the subject of their next book,
Narrow Dog to Indian River
, coming from Delta in 2009.
For news on their travels, visit their website at
www.narrowdog.com
.
TERRY DARLINGTON
was brought up in Pembroke Dock, Wales, during the war, between a flying-boat base and an oil terminal. He survived and moved to Staffordshire, where he founded Research Associates, an international market research firm, and Stone Master Marathoners, a running club. Like many Welshmen, he is talkative and confiding, ill at ease with practical matters, and liable to linger in pubs. He likes boating but knows nothing about it.
MONICA DARLINGTON
comes from Radnorshire, Wales. Her father was a gardener and her mother was a housemaid—or perhaps it was the other way around. She has a first-class degree in French, has run thirty marathons, and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Her three children have all reproduced themselves, removing doubts about whether she and Terry are the same species. She quite likes boating but knows nothing about it.
Brynula Great Expectations (JIM)
is sprung from a long line of dogs with ridiculous names. Jim can run at forty miles an hour. He is cowardly, thieving, and disrespectful, and he hates boating.
Visit their website at
www.narrowdog.com
.
“A RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC JOURNEY…
The writing is as muscular and lean as its canine hero, conjuring up dawn mist or giant catfish in prose haiku before moving on to the next killer one-liner.”
—Daily Telegraph
(UK)
NARROW DOG TO CARCASSONNE
A Delta Trade Paperback / April 2008
Originally published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, a division of Transworld Publishers
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
All rights reserved
Copyright © 2005 by Terry Darlington
Illustrations by Christopher Corr
Delta is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Darlington, Terry.
Narrow dog to Carcassonne / Terry Darlington.
p. cm.
“Originally published in Great Britain by Bantam Press”—T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Boats and boating—France. 2. France—Description and travel. 3. Canals—France. 4. Rivers—France. 5. Canal boats—France. 6. Carcassonne (France)—Description and travel. I. Title.
GV835.3.F8D37 2008
797.10944—dc22
2007030295
eISBN: 978-0-440-33756-0
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