Green & Silver
Published by Allen & Unwin in 1949.
Second edition published by Allen & Unwin in 1968.
New edition published by the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland in 1993.
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Green & Silver, the follow-up to Narrow Boat, describes a journey through the waterways of Southern Ireland in 1946.
At once literature and handbook, personal document and all embracing symposium on its subject” is how a reviewer described Narrow Boat and it is equally true of Green & Silver. For the general reader it is an unusual country book giving a memorable portrait of a rural Ireland not accessible to the traveller by road or rail.
"Just as Tom Rolt’s book Narrow Boat was to become a classic across the water and lead to new interest in English Waterways, so Green and Silver became a classic and was an important element in the campaign launched by the small group who founded the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland in 1954 to save the Shannon navigation from strangulation by low bridges... It captures for all time the waterways as they were then, at their very lowest ebb, and his enchantment at what he experienced shines through strongly."
Ruth Delany, in her foreword to the 1993 edition
See article, Rolt Remembered (Gerald Potterton in Irish Waterways, Spring 2010 - PDF file, 2.75MB), for the LTC Rolt Centenary 2010.
