The Channel: Remarkable Men And Women Who Made It Most Fascinating Waterway In World Charlie Connelly Weidenfeld Nicolson Αγγλικά Βιβλία History

A Bulwark Against Invasion Conduit For Exchange And Challenge To Be Conquered The English Channel Has Always Been Many Things People Today It\ S Busiest Shipping Lane In World 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 Conductor Goods Criss-Crossing - Not Mention Regularly Throwing Himself Into It Bracing Swim Charlie Connelly Collects Stories Brings Them Vividly Life From Tailing Oscar Wilde\ Shadow Through Dark Streets Dieppe Unearthing Britain\ First Beauty Pageant End Folkestone Pier (It Was Won By Bloke Called Wally) We Learn That Louis Bleriot Actually Terrible Pilot Tragic Fate Successful Swimmer If Man With Buttered Head Pigs\ Bladders Attached His Trousers Hadn\ T Fought Off An Attack Dogfish Might Never Have Had Tunnel Here Is Cast Extraordinary Characters Geniuses Cheats Dreamers Charlatans Visionaries Eccentrics Least One Pair Naked Cuddling Balloonists Whose Are All United Ensure Sea Makes Us Island Will Same Again Σελίδες: 304 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0825 Διαστάσεις: 16 2X16 2Cm