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A Year of Small Boats: Dinghies, punts, and the people who love them50%
Rivers & Sea

A Year of Small Boats: Dinghies, punts, and the people who love them

Edwin Marsh · narrated by Rowan Whitmore

2026

4h 14m
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You will spend a year among dinghies and punts, the kind of small boats that ask you to slow down. Edwin Marsh writes about the people who tend them: sanding varnish at dawn, poling through reeds, learning to trust the current. Rowan Whitmore reads in a voice that feels like morning light on water, steady and unhurried, with pauses that let you notice the lap against wood. Each chapter returns you to the same boats through the seasons, so you feel the restlessness settle, then the hurry creep back, then the relief of one stroke, then another. The sound design carries birdsong, oarlocks, and the particular hush of a punt parting reeds. Settle in and let the year unfold.

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18 chapters

  1. 1What You Will Find Here2m
  2. 2Standing Still2m
  3. 3Chapter 1: The Water Holds Still for No One17m
  4. 4Chapter 2: What Restlessness Really Is13m
  5. 5Chapter 3: The Hurry That Creeps In20m
  6. 6Chapter 4: Morning Light on Varnished Wood21m
  7. 7Chapter 5: One Stroke, Then Another22m
  8. 8Chapter 6: The Sound a Punt Makes Through Reeds25m
  9. 9Chapter 7: Rain on a Covered Deck20m
  10. 10Chapter 8: What the Water Shows Back16m
  11. 11Chapter 9: The Weight of an Anchor Rope23m
  12. 12Chapter 10: Evening, and the Hull Cools23m
  13. 13Chapter 11: A Single Boat, Returned To18m
  14. 14Chapter 12: The Shape of a Year Afloat13m
  15. 15Chapter 13: When the Water Asks You to Stay Ashore15m
  16. 16Walking Back2m
  17. 17About the Author1m
  18. 18What to Read Next1m
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