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Author : Marcia Cleveland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967209111
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dover Solo written by Marcia Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn Stout
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618858687
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Young Woman and the Sea written by Glenn Stout and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PERFECT MILE meet SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA in this compelling tale of how nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel.
Author : Kathy Watson
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472236149
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book The Crossing written by Kathy Watson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Now a Major Film* On the night of 24 August 1875 Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British Navy captain, launched himself into the English Channel at Dover. Twenty-one hours and 45 minutes later he became the first man to swim the English Channel. In this acclaimed biography, Kathy Watson shows how Captain Webb was instrumental in bringing the sport of swimming into the modern era. It is also a study of the Victorian drive to push back the boundaries of endurance. In THE CROSSING, Watson uses this great British eccentric's extraordinary life as a springboard to explore themes of obsession and failure and the emerging force of the media, and swimming's place in our psyche.
Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781596352
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Naval Warfare in the English Channel, 1939–1945 written by Peter C. Smith and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII history examines how the Royal Navy defended the English Channel from the first Dover Patrols to the liberation of the Channel Islands. The English Channel has always provided Great Britain with a natural defensive barrier, but it was never more vital than in the early days of World War Two. This book relates how the Royal Navy maintained control of that vital seaway throughout the war. Military historian Peter Smith takes readers from the early days of the Dover Patrols, through the traumas of the Dunkirk evacuation and the battles of the Channel convoys; the war against the E-boats and U-boats; the tragic raids at Dieppe and St Nazaire; the escape of the German battle-fleet; coastal convoys; the Normandy landings and the final liberation of the Channel Islands. Many wartime photographs, charts and tables add to this superb account of this bitterly contested narrow sea.
Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823438260
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Trudy's Big Swim written by Sue Macy and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. Lyrical text, stunning illustrations and fascinating back matter put the reader right alongside Ederle in her bid to be the first woman to swim the Channel—and contextualizes her record-smashing victory as a defining moment in sports history. Time line, bibliography, source notes.
Author : Renaud Morieux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039495
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Channel written by Renaud Morieux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.
Author : Nigel Calder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The English Channel written by Nigel Calder and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Army Air Forces. Weather Directorate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The English Channel written by United States. Army Air Forces. Weather Directorate and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152023805
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Brave Harriet written by Marissa Moss and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American woman to have received a pilot's license, Harriet Quimby, describes her April 1912 solo flight across the English Channel, the first such flight by any woman.
Author : Mark Ransom
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781719209922
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Keep Calm and Swim to France written by Mark Ransom and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swimming across the English Channel is regarded as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges. During a night out with friends, Mark Ransom made a drunken pact with one of them that they would swim the English Channel the following year. At the time he had no idea just what this was going to entail and it proved to be the toughest year of his life. This is a blow by blow account of Mark's journey throughout that year where he had to organise and train for this monumental event. He soon realised that this was not just about the challenge of swimming the English Channel but was also about overcoming many personal challenges and confronting his inner demons along the way. Mark talks openly about his low moments when he wanted to give up altogether and also his high points and the comical situations he found himself in. From the intimate details of a child's beginnings to a man's fears and troubles, Mark's story is so captivating and honest. Mark discloses his innermost thoughts and feelings including those he experienced during the swim itself. Following on from his successful solo swim Mark returned to the Channel a few years later to organise two relay teams to race to France. The final part of the book details the organisation of this challenge and finishes with an account of the race itself. Mark Ransom's book aims to entertain, inform and inspire. This is as close as you can get to experiencing an English Channel Swim without actually doing it!
Author : Sally Friedman
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805054446
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Swimming the Channel written by Sally Friedman and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scenic artist describes life with her husband, their love for swimming and plans to swim the English channel together, and her difficulties in adjusting to widowhood after his death in a car accident
Author : Tom Gregory
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780141988757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (887 download)
Download or read book A Boy in the Water written by Tom Gregory and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the William Hill 2018 Sports Book of the Year Award** A Sunday Times Book of the Year and Telegraph Best Book of 2018 'Extraordinary' Clare Balding The poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking Channel swim became reality Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and grease-smeared goggles swims the last few metres from France to England. He has been in the water for twelve agonizing hours, encouraged at each stroke by his coach, John Bullet, who has become a second father. This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a coach and a boy, and a love letter to the intensity and freedom of childhood.
Author : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Sailing Directions for the English Channel written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlie Connelly
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474607934
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Channel written by Charlie Connelly and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368156594
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Sailing Directions for the English Channel written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Author : Tom Fort
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471129721
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Channel Shore written by Tom Fort and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous, discursive, utterly absorbing journey from Dover to Land's End, along the English Channel shore, the busiest waterway in the world.
Author : Alice Provensen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101643714
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Glorious Flight written by Alice Provensen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.
