The North Sea : Along the Edge of Britain, Alistair Moffat

The North Sea : Along the Edge of Britain, Alistair MoffatNew Hardback The North Sea, a maritime highway and the edge of a nation of islanders with a proud sea faring past. Running from Kent and the Rhine estuary to the Norwegian coast and the tip of the Shetland islands, it has been home to warring tribes, foreign invaders, lost civilisations and holidaymakers. Its history spans millennia, since a seismic shift sent land retreating and water rushing in. Today, the North Sea continues to rise, claiming land

flanked by the rivers Tyne and Tees

obscure and utterly British species found nowhere else on earth

The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls

people and time

covering the dramatic era of German history that culminated in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933

Inside are one hundred delicious

and sometimes downright dangerous

and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends

Plague-carriers

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