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portada The Channel: The Remarkable men and Women who Made it the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781474607919

The Channel: The Remarkable men and Women who Made it the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World

Charlie Connelly (Author) · W&N · Hardcover

The Channel: The Remarkable men and Women who Made it the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World - Charlie Connelly

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Synopsis "The Channel: The Remarkable men and Women who Made it the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World"

A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every year but this sliver of choppy brine, just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, represents much more than a conductor of goods and people. Criss-crossing the Channel - not to mention regularly throwing himself into it for a bracing swim - 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 (it was won by a bloke called Wally). 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. Here is a cast of extraordinary characters - geniuses, cheats, dreamers, charlatans, visionaries, eccentrics and at least one pair of naked, cuddling balloonists - whose 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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