The Busy Narrow Sea: A Social History of the English Channel - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781803996820ISBN-10:180399682XUPC:9781803996820Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Civilization, Cultural & RegionalBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.37 x 6.22 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCSMTYAXBQ
It was half a million years ago that Britain first parted from Europe. As ice melted, water smashed through the chalky land bridge that separated Britain from the continent of Europe, forming what we now know as the English Channel, and the French call La Manche. The second parting, far from being a force of nature, was the choice of Britain's islanders disillusioned with Continental rule. This...
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781803996820ISBN-10:180399682XUPC:9781803996820Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Civilization, Cultural & RegionalBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.37 x 6.22 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCSMTYAXBQ
As a freelance writer, Robin Laurance honed his research and writing skills contributing features to The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and a variety of weekly and monthly magazines. These features have taken him from the Oval Office in Washington to the car factories of Japan; the sugar estates of Brazil; the Presidential Palace in Turkey, and the coconut plantations of southern India. He...
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