Channel Shore

From the White Cliffs to Land's End

Tom Fort (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2015
Simon & Schuster Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4711-2972-8 (ISBN)

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Ahumorous, discursive, utterly absorbing journey from Dover to Land's End, along the English Channel shore, the busiest waterway in the world

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.5.2015
Zusatzinfo	b&w integrated illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	519 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	1-4711-2972-1 / 1471129721
ISBN-13	978-1-4711-2972-8 / 9781471129728
Zustand	Neuware