Channel Shore
From the White Cliffs to Land's End
$30.83
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2016
Summary
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 m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471129735 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147112973X |
| Author: | Tom Fort |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm |
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About The Author
Tom Fort
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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