Channel Crossing: One Man's Voyage Around And Across the English Channel - Couverture rigide

Smith, Sebastian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241140773 ISBN 13 : 9780241140772

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 2001

Synopsis

The story of a voyage across and around the English Channel. Stirred by a news report of the decommissioning of Britain's last lighthouse keeper, Sebastian Smith quit his press agency desk-job in the Spring of 1999 to explore the vanishing way oflife of those who live on or by the Channel. Gripped by the stories he hears and the people he encounters, recorded here perhaps for the last time, he finds himself seduced by the lure of the sea and determines to make his own journey across the Channel, teaching himself how to pilot and sail a tiny sea-going dinghy...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sebastian Smith has been a correspondent in Washington, Moscow and London for the Agence France-Presse news agency. He won two prizes for his reporting of the war in Chechnya, including France's highest journalistic award, the Albert Londres. His first book, ALLAH'S MOUNTAINS : Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus, was published in 1998 and has been widely praised. He lives in North London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241140773
• ISBN 13: 9780241140772
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible