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The English Channel
Tracing the changes--geological, archaeological, historical, and political--in the English Channel over the centuries since the fall of the Roman Empire, this unique sea biography explores a body of water rich in natural and historical interest
- GenresHistory
373 pages, Paperback
First published June 16, 1986
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November 22, 2023
Written in the 1980s, so woefully outdated in some regards, but still a fun hodgepodge of history, politics, geology, oceanography, and marine navigation. My ignorance of what's involved in sailing was so thorough and profound that I couldn't begin to imagine how much I didn't know.
November 17, 2011
Calder traveled the Channel counter-clockwise by sea, explaining the areas he encountered in historic and scientific detail. I read a (short) chapter or two at a time over the course of a couple of weeks. Said detail was too-much-information for me often, as I had expected a stronger travel narrative aspect, though he did accomplish what he set out to record. The section regarding a hypothetical tunnel ("The Chunnel") did come across as jarringly dated.
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