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Channel Crossing: One Man's Voyage Around And Across the English Channel: One Man's Voyage Across and Around the English Channel - Hardcover

Smith, Sebastian

 
9780241140772: Channel Crossing: One Man's Voyage Around And Across the English Channel: One Man's Voyage Across and Around the English Channel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0241140773 ISBN 13: 9780241140772
Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

The story of a voyage across and around the English Channel. Stirred by a news report of the decommissioning of Britain's last lighthouse keeper, Sebastian Smith quit his press agency desk-job in the Spring of 1999 to explore the vanishing way oflife of those who live on or by the Channel. Gripped by the stories he hears and the people he encounters, recorded here perhaps for the last time, he finds himself seduced by the lure of the sea and determines to make his own journey across the Channel, teaching himself how to pilot and sail a tiny sea-going dinghy...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sebastian Smith has been a correspondent in Washington, Moscow and London for the Agence France-Presse news agency. He won two prizes for his reporting of the war in Chechnya, including France's highest journalistic award, the Albert Londres. His first book, ALLAH'S MOUNTAINS : Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus, was published in 1998 and has been widely praised. He lives in North London.

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Verlag
Hamish Hamilton
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241140773
ISBN 13 
9780241140772
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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