The Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel
Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822546924

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.

The Tunnel

The Tunnel
Author: Brian Wildsmith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1994
Genre: Toy and movable books
ISBN: 9780192722881

A bilingual book to celebrate the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Two moles, one French, one English, decide to dig a hole under the English Channel to see each other. The book has a hole running through it, and a moveable wheel in the middle.

Engineering the Channel Tunnel

Engineering the Channel Tunnel
Author: Colin Kirkland
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1995-07-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780419179207

The Channel Tunnel may be the greatest engineering project in Europe this century. This book describes the tremendous engineering achievement of the construction of the tunnel. Written by twenty of the key engineers involved, it provides a fascinating, informative and inspiring account of the project for both engineering professionals and general readers.

The Channel Tunnel Story

The Channel Tunnel Story
Author: G Anderson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0203362292

The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14,000 people at peak, and costing over 15611 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial, political and techncial difficulties, and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project, based on the coverage in Construction News and with commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources.

The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel

The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel
Author: Terry Gourvish
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134165447

Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94. This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and private sectors), revealing new insights into the role of the British and French Governments in the process. This important book, written by Britain’s leading transport historian, will be essential reading for all those interested in PPPs, British and European economic history and international relations. The building of the Channel Tunnel has been one of Europe’s major projects and a testimony to British-French and public-private sector collaboration. However, Eurotunnel’s current financial crisis provides a sobering backcloth for an examination of the British Government’s long-term flirtation with the project, and, in particular, the earlier Tunnel project in the 1960s and early 1970s, which was abandoned by the British Government in 1975.

Engineering Geology of the Channel Tunnel

Engineering Geology of the Channel Tunnel
Author: Colin S. Harris
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 646
Release: 1996
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780727720450

The Channel Tunnel has been called the greatest engineering project of the century, overcoming a unique set of financial, political and engineering challenges. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the events which culminated in the first dry link between Britain and France. It describes the relationship between the site investigation, data interpretation and construction of the works. It examines areas such as the difficulties inherent in predicting geology from a relatively small number of boreholes and revealing how the use of modern geophysical techniques.

The Chunnel

The Chunnel
Author: Drew Fetherston
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

In a "business narrative of high risk and high finance, of culture clashes and reckless blunders," the author explains the tunnel from an engineering standpoint and also from the viewpoint of the financiers who had planned to make money on the project.

Bridging Divides

Bridging Divides
Author: Eve Darian-Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520921832

In a study that is original and timely, Eve Darian-Smith uses the Channel Tunnel between England and France to explore the shifting geographies of nationalism, postcolonialism, and legal autonomy in the formation of the European Union. Conducting ethnographic research in Kent, the county at the English mouth of the Tunnel, she looks at regional differences in feelings about Europe and at the vocabulary used in discussing the Tunnel. Visual representations—political cartoons, photographs, etchings—regarding the Tunnel are also examined. Two hundred years after Napoleon planned to invade England via a tunnel, the completion in 1994 of a fast rail link between Great Britain and the European mainland symbolizes the disintegration of conventional state borders. While the Tunnel precariously affirms the ideal of a united Europe, it also brings to the fore questions of boundaries between the first and third worlds, colonizers and colonized, and the "East" and the "West." Bridging Divides is about much more than an engineering feat. By exploring historical narratives, tunnel stories, and legal myths, Darian-Smith's study shows the interconnections between people's memories of the past and current history.

Eurotunnel

Eurotunnel
Author: Jeremy Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1994
Genre: Channel Tunnel
ISBN:

History of the construction of the Eurotunnel.

The Penguin Companion to European Union

The Penguin Companion to European Union
Author: Anthony Teasdale
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9780141021188

The focus of this book is on the fifteen-member European Union but its coverage extends to many other bodies which form part of today's Europe, such as the Council of Europe, the European Economic Area and Western European Union.