Dover Solo
Author: Marcia Cleveland
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780967209111
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Trudy's Big Swim
Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 0823438260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 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.
Young Woman and the Sea
Author: Glenn Stout
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0618858687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE 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.
The Crossing
Author: Kathy Watson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1472236149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*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.
The Channel Tunnel
Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780822546924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Channel Crossing
Author: Sebastian Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo 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...
The Channel
Author: Renaud Morieux
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1107039495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.
Battle in the English Channel
Author: Theodore Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780380852253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes 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.
Naval Warfare in the English Channel, 1939–1945
Author: Peter C. Smith
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2007-11-13
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1781596352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Keep Calm and Swim to France
Author: Mark Ransom
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-07-23
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781719209922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSwimming 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!
