Product Review

Floating through France: Life Between Locks on the Canal du Midi is filled with travel essays, poetry, and photos capturing the spirit of the Canal du Midi. What was once a short cut for bustling commerce in the seventeenth century is now the setting for modern tales. The journey is like no other in France.

This anthology takes the reader through a rich tour of the area with musings that are entertaining, educational, heartfelt, enlightening and bubbling with humor. In “Matters of Trust,” writer Ethel Mussen hands her bag over to a stranger and gets something else in return. Ann Ure confesses how the camaraderie on the boat quickly changed her from introvert to extrovert. Writer and insomniac Christi Marcus finally gets some shut-eye when she tucks into her cramped sleeping spot below deck, as told in “Destiny.”