Channel Shore: From the White Cliffs to Land's End - Hardcover

Fort, Tom

 
9781471129728: Channel Shore: From the White Cliffs to Land's End
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1471129721 ISBN 13: 9781471129728
Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. It is also our nearest, dearest playground where people have sought sun, sin and bracing breezes.
Tom Fort takes us on a fascinating, discursive journey from east to west, to find out what this stretch of water means to us and what is so special about the English seaside, that edge between land and seawater. He dips his toe into Sandgate's waters, takes the air in Hastings and Bexhill, chews whelks in Brighton, builds a sandcastle in Sandbanks, sunbathes in sunny Sidmouth, catches prawns off the slipway at Salcombe and hunts a shark off Looe. Stories of smugglers and shipwreck robbers, of beachcombers and samphire gatherers, gold diggers and fossil hunters abound.

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Tom Fort was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1978 he joined the BBC in London where he worked in the BBC Radio newsroom for 22 years. He lives in South Oxfordshire with his wife and two of his children and has been travelling up and down the A303 for over five decades.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1471129721
ISBN 13 
9781471129728
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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