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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 : Sue Macy
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823438260
Total Pages : 20 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 20 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 : 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 : Hachette UK
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 Hachette UK. 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 : 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 : Sebastian Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Channel Crossing written by Sebastian Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the early Romans it marked the end of the world. To the French it is simply La Manche, or the 'sleeve'. But to the British it is the English Channel, a powerful symbol and literal barrier, defining an island nation. Stirred by a news report of the replacement of Britain's last lighthouse keepers by computers, Sebastian Smith quit his press agency desk job in spring 1999 to explore the vanishing way of life of those who live on and by the Channel. Gripped by the stories he hears and the people he encounters, he is seduced by the lure of the sea and determines to make his own journey across the Channel, teaching himself to pilot and sail a tiny sea-going dinghy...
Author : Sandy Donovan
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822546924
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (469 download)
Download or read book The Channel Tunnel written by Sandy Donovan and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.
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 : Theodore Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380852253
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Battle in the English Channel written by Theodore Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events of the major sea battle in the English Channel in February 1942 when the British navy failed to capture several strategically important German battleships.
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 : 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 : 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 : Peter Harris
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0123851408
Total Pages : 947 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat written by Peter Harris and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This book provides a synthesis of seabed geomorphology and benthic habitats based on the most recent, up-to-date information. Case studies from around the world are presented.
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 : Nicholas C. Flemming
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118922131
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Submerged Landscapes of the European Continental Shelf written by Nicholas C. Flemming and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaternary Paleoenvironments examines the drowned landscapes exposed as extensive and attractive territory for prehistoric human settlement during the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, when sea levels dropped to 120m-135m below their current levels. This volume provides an overview of the geological, geomorphological, climatic and sea-level history of the European continental shelf as a whole, as well as a series of detailed regional reviews for each of the major sea basins. The nature and variable attractions of the landscapes and resources available for human exploitation are examined, as are the conditions under which archaeological sites and landscape features are likely to have been preserved, destroyed or buried by sediment during sea-level rise. The authors also discuss the extent to which we can predict where to look for drowned landscapes with the greatest chance of success, with frequent reference to examples of preserved prehistoric sites in different submerged environments. Quaternary Paleoenvironments will be of interest to archaeologists, geologists, marine scientists, palaeoanthropologists, cultural heritage managers, geographers, and all those with an interest in the drowned landscapes of the continental shelf.
Author : Nigel Calder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140101317
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The English Channel written by Nigel Calder and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Cunliffe
Publisher : Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson
ISBN 13 : 9781846237003
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Shell Channel Pilot written by Tom Cunliffe and published by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 80 years The Shell Channel Pilot has been the ultimate authority on English Channel navigation and pilotage. Following the pioneering work of the legendary Adlard Coles, the book was passed to Captain John Coote RN in 1982. In his comparatively short, ten-year tenure, John Coote expanded the coverage from the English coast to include northern France. He also applied a characteristic humour to the shoreside aspect of the text which has been enthusiastically adopted by Tom Cunliffe, the present and third compiler of this unique work. Upgraded and updated regularly, this is the 8th edition published by Imray under Cunliffe¿s hand. `Shell¿ is more than a harbour guide. It also provides a reassuring hand on the shoulder for Channel navigation, with useful passage notes gleaned from the compiler¿s personal experience of more than 40 years running the tides and finding the eddies. His frank remarks regarding harbour and recreational facilities have long been relied upon by sailors of all generations and nationalities. While leading to some enlightening secrets, they have been known to cause landlords whose establishments fall short of the required standard to lose the will to live.Working with harbourmasters and a dedicated group of carefully selected yachtsmen and women, Cunliffe has kept this pilot as up to date as is humanly possible. More than being technically sound, which is to be expected from a Yachtmaster Examiner, the book is also a thoroughly enjoyable read.
