Roger Windle Pilkington (7 January 1915 – 5 May 2003) was a British writer and biologist. He is best-known for his 20-volume ''Small Boat'' series, recounting trips along Europe's inland waterways in an Admiral's Barge, which he had converted into a sea going cabin cruiser, named "Commodore". In 1992 he wrote about his crossing the Atlantic in the airship '' Hindenburg''. Roger was married to Theodore Miriam Pilkington (nee Hewat-Jaboor) and had two children, Cynthia Miriam Pilkington and Hugh Austin Windle Pilkington. After a divorce, he then married Ingrid Geijer. Roger died in France, near Montouliers where he had many happy years spending his retirement between there and Jersey.

Bibliography

''Small Boat'' series

* ''Thames Waters'' (1956) * ''Small Boat Through Belgium'' (1957) * ''Small Boat Through Holland'' (1958) * ''Small Boat to the Skagerrak'' (1960) * ''Small Boat Through Sweden'' (1961) * ''Small Boat to Alsace'' (1961) * ''Small Boat to Bavaria'' (1962) * ''Small Boat Through Germany'' (1963) * ''Small Boat Through France'' (1964) * ''Small Boat in Southern France'' (1965) * ''Small Boat on the Thames'' (1966) * ''Small Boat on the Meuse'' (1967) * ''Small Boat to Luxembourg'' (1967) * ''Small Boat on the Moselle'' (1968) * ''Small Boat to Elsinore'' (1969) * ''Small Boat to Northern Germany'' (1969) * ''Small Boat on the Lower Rhine'' (1970) * ''Small Boat on the Upper Rhine'' (1971) * ''Small Boat down the Years'' (1987) * ''Small Boat in the Midi'' (1989)

Other works

* ''Males and Females'' (1948) * ''Stringer's Folly'' (1951) * ''Biology, Man and God'' (1951) * ''How Your Life Began'' (1953) * ''Revelation Through Science'' (1956) * ''World Without End'' (1960) * ''How Boats Are Navigated'' (1962) * ''Sex and Morality'' (1966) * ''Waterways in Europe'' (1971) * ''The Ormering Tide'' (1974) * ''One Foot in France'' (1992) * ''View From the Shore'' (1995) * ''History and Legends of the European Waterways'' (1998)

References

1915 births 2003 deaths {{UK-writer-stub