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Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways, forged villains and heroes, and determined the fates of nations. It's not all grim, though: the seaside holiday was born on North Sea beaches, and artists, poets and writers have been as equally inspired by glinting sun on the wave-tops as they have the drama of a winter storm. With a wry eye and a warm coat, Tom Blass travels the edges of the North Sea meeting fishermen, artists, bomb disposal experts, burgermeisters - and those who have found themselves flung to the sea's perimeters quite by chance. In doing so he attempts to piece together its manifold histories and to reveal truths, half-truths and fictions otherwise submerged...
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The Naked Shore, Tom Blass
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2017
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- Titel
- The Naked Shore
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Tom Blass
- Verlag
- Bloomsbury Trade
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2017
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1408834030
- ISBN13
- 9781408834039
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Karten & Reisen, Natur, Reisen, Britische Literatur, Geschichte Europas, Schottland
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- 3,1 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways, forged villains and heroes, and determined the fates of nations. It's not all grim, though: the seaside holiday was born on North Sea beaches, and artists, poets and writers have been as equally inspired by glinting sun on the wave-tops as they have the drama of a winter storm. With a wry eye and a warm coat, Tom Blass travels the edges of the North Sea meeting fishermen, artists, bomb disposal experts, burgermeisters - and those who have found themselves flung to the sea's perimeters quite by chance. In doing so he attempts to piece together its manifold histories and to reveal truths, half-truths and fictions otherwise submerged...