The Channel Islands

Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Ecréhou, Minquiers, Lihou, Brecqhou, Jethou, Burhou, Casquets

De Didier Decoin, Patrick Courault,

Chez Isoète

Paru le 15/12/2000

Cartonné

traduit du français par Michèle Dutrieux

photographies Patrick Courault

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Quatrième de couverture

Patrick Courault, a former sailor has known the Channel coasts for twenty-five years. A photograph enthusiast, he goes ail over Norman shores, from Le Tréport to The Mont Saint-Michel, to capture their lights.

He has got already published, by Isoète, in collaboration with Didier Decoin, a member of the Académie Goncourt: "Presqu'île de lumière, Rivages du Cotentin."

"Voyage au pays de l'Archange, le Mont Saint-Michel", texts by the historian and specialist of Middle-Ages, Régine Pernoud.

"La Côtes des Havres, Rivages de Carteret à Granville, les Iles Chausey", in collaboration with the writer Frédéric Lasaygues.

"The Channel Islands", the fourth volume of the séries, required three years of land, sea and aerial photographic work.

Biographie

Goncourt prize-winner in 1977 for his novel "John l'Enfer", Didier Decoin has devoted a few books to his favourite Land, La Hague: "Les trois vies de Babe Ozouf" (Seuil), "La Hague" and "Cherbourg" (Isoète) with Natacha Hochman, "Presqu'île de Lumière" (Isoète), with Patrick Courault.

Son of the film director Henry Decoin, and film director himself, he is the script-writer of "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo" (by Alexandre Dumas) and "Les Misérables" (by Victor Hugo), which were adapted for television. He his a member of the Académie Goncourt.