Camping on the Wye

Nonfiction, Sports, Water Sports, Boating, History, Modern, 19th Century, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Camping on the Wye by Mr S. K. Baker, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Author: Mr S. K. Baker ISBN: 9781472945112
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: June 1, 2017
Imprint: Adlard Coles Language: English
Author: Mr S. K. Baker
ISBN: 9781472945112
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: June 1, 2017
Imprint: Adlard Coles
Language: English

During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the River Wye. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books.

The result is an entirely charming, funny account along the lines of the legendary Three Men in a Boat with which the notebooks are entirely contemporaneous although the protagonists are younger and possibly naughtier. Baker records their evenings in the pub, their encounters with girls, (both ashore and afloat), nude swimming and culinary disasters, while recording lovingly the landscape and the boats on which they sailed.

The notebook is published as a facsimile with an introduction by Michael Goffe, the son of one of Baker's fellow students (GG in the text), to whom it was gifted.

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During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the River Wye. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books.

The result is an entirely charming, funny account along the lines of the legendary Three Men in a Boat with which the notebooks are entirely contemporaneous although the protagonists are younger and possibly naughtier. Baker records their evenings in the pub, their encounters with girls, (both ashore and afloat), nude swimming and culinary disasters, while recording lovingly the landscape and the boats on which they sailed.

The notebook is published as a facsimile with an introduction by Michael Goffe, the son of one of Baker's fellow students (GG in the text), to whom it was gifted.

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