The Narrow Sea: Barrier, Bridge and Gateway to the World - The History of the English Channel

by Peter Unwin

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The English Channel separates Britain from Europe, keeping invaders out of Britain and making the island and islanders different from the continent and their fellow Europeans. But the Channel also serves as a link between mainland and island, bearing settlers, missionaries, merchants, refugees and conquerors back and forth over the millennia. Explorers and adventurers have sailed its waters, and leaders from Julius Caesar to Napoleon and Hitler have battled for sovereignty over these narrow seas. Peter Unwin tells the story of the English Channel from the land-bridge that linked Britain to the continent nine thousand years ago to the Channel tunnel of the 21st century, charting the landscape and seascape of northern Europe's gateway to the oceans.
  • ISBN10 0747244367
  • ISBN13 9780747244363
  • Publish Date 7 April 2003
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 20 April 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Headline Publishing Group
  • Imprint Headline Book Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English