Channel Shore from the White Cliffs to Land's End.

Tom Fort

ISBN 10: 1471129721 / ISBN 13: 9781471129728

Published by Simon & Schuster Uk Ltd, London .UK, 2015

About this Item

In this book Tom Fort takes us on a fascinating journey east to west along that edge between land and sea, to find out what this 333-mile stretch of coast means to us. The boards and binding are square and tight, the text block is light tanned on the top, otherwise tight and clean as is the dust jacket. .Book price includes 2nd class postage in UK only. This book is photographed in the box as proof against in-transit damage. Book price includes 2nd class postage in UK only. This book is photographed in the box as proof against in-transit damage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Channel Shore from the White Cliffs to Land's End.
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Uk Ltd, London .UK
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1471129721
• ISBN 13: 9781471129728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.