Cross Channel France

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367576
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross Channel written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has a better perspective on life on both sides of the channel than Julian Barnes. In these exquisitely crafted stories spanning several centuries, he takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming 'navvies' labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme. Combining the intellectual audacity of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters with the francophilia of the acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes explores the English experience of France over the centuries with dazzling wit and sophistication.

Author : Claire Davison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474441890
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Channel Modernisms written by Claire Davison and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond Offers cutting-edge explorations of different aspects of artistic exchange between Britain and France, written by experts on both sides of the ChannelProvides original close readings of canonical and marginalised modernist textsOpens up new conceptual paradigms by probing multiple meanings related to 'crossing' and 'channelling' modernismOrganises chapters around three key themes of 'translating', 'fashioning', 'mediating' that intervene in the new modernist studiesDescribed by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and intellectual barrier between European avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms 'Translating', 'Fashioning' and 'Mediating', this book presents ten original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel. Cross-Channel Modernisms historicises artistic exchangesa ina Britain, France and beyond and proposes a rich conceptual apparatus of 'crossings' and 'channels' through which we can read modernism and understand it as emerging from, and intervening in, an always-already shifting, multivalent,a internationala context.

Author : John Ruler
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 184162327X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Channel France written by John Ruler and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nord-Pas de Calais is Britain's foothold in France; it's where the ferries dock and the Channel Tunnel emerges into daylight. Bradt's Cross-Channel France delves not only into the port towns but also into the forgotten France that's rarely reached. Sample Vieux Bologne - the smelliest cheese in the world; climb the hill at Cassel - where the Grand Old Duke of York marched his 10,000 men; or visit Agincourt - the site of a cornerstone battle in British history. The guide also reveals where visitors can shop for cut-price goods and where they can cycle, walk or ride horses. Bradt's Cross-Channel France is packed with information for day trips as well as longer family-friendly holidays.

Author : Renaud Morieux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039495
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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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 : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : BDD Promotional Books Company
ISBN 13 : 9780792458562
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross Channel Attack written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by BDD Promotional Books Company. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Allied invasion of Normandy, with extensive details about the planning stage, called Operation Overlord, as well as the fighting on Utah and Omaha Beaches.

Author : Douglas Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134279051
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross Channel Currents written by Douglas Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance. Contributors include the late Roy Jenkins, in a witty and personal view of Winston Churchill's relationship with France; Pierre Messmer, a companion of Charles de Gaulle during World War II and later his prime minister; former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, who remembers the historic meeting of Edward Heath and Georges Pompidou; Hubert Vedrine, a former French foreign minister, on the difficulties of cross-Channel relations; and their successors Dominique de Villepin and Jack Straw.

Author : Terry Darlington
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0440337569
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrow Dog to Carcassonne written by Terry Darlington and published by Delta. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a “lunatic scheme” to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France.

Author : Sandy Donovan
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822546924
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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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 : Sebastian Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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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 : Richard Mayne
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415346627
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross Channel Currents written by Richard Mayne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance.