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Książka Channel Charlie Connelly

Channel

The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World

Autor: Charlie Connelly
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Orion Publishing Co
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
Wysyłamy za 14-21 dni
52.74 zł
''A wonderfully quirky history'' SUNDAY TIMES''The perfect read while you wait for your summer holid...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Charlie Connelly
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2022
strony
304
EAN
9781474607926
ISBN
1474607926
Enbook ID
33538116
Wydawca
Orion Publishing Co
Waga
264
Wymiary
197 x 129 x 26

Pełny opis

''A wonderfully quirky history'' SUNDAY TIMES
''The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin'' MAIL ON SUNDAY
''Quippy anecdotes are woven with historical reference and geographical context to give full colour'' IRISH TIMES

A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel - 21 miles wide at its narrowest point - represents much more than a conductor of goods and people. Criss-crossing the Channel, Charlie Connelly collects its stories and brings them vividly to life, from tailing Oscar Wilde''s shadow through the dark streets of Dieppe to unearthing Britain''s first beauty pageant at the end of Folkestone pier. We learn that Louis Bleriot was actually a terrible pilot, the tragic fate of the first successful Channel swimmer, and that if a man with a buttered head and pigs'' bladders attached to his trousers hadn''t fought off an attack by dogfish we might never have had a Channel Tunnel.

Charlie Connelly uncovers remarkable tales of swimmers and flyers, pirates and soldiers, heroes and villains, pioneers and refugees. Their stories are all united by the English Channel to ensure the sea that makes us an island will never be the same again.

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