by Charlie Connelly · Little, Brown Book Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349116037
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«Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast» is a travel book by Charlie Connelly, in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Charlie Connelly travels through the real regions behind the names of the BBC shipping forecast, broadcast on radio since the 1920s. With humor, he shows how that bulletin, created to warn sailors, also inspired poems, songs and novels, and portrays coastal communities of northern Europe.
The work was chosen as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. The original was published in 2004; this edition, in 2005.
For BBC Radio 4 listeners, radio enthusiasts and armchair travelers interested in British maritime culture and travel literature.
