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Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast (Radio 4 Book of the Week) (Paperback)

by Charlie Connelly (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (5 May 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0349116032
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349116037
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,899 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'What a great idea for a book' - Scotland on Sunday 'If listening to 'Sailing By' to the bitter end every night is the surest sign of a Radio 4 addict, then buying Charlie Connelly's new travel book runs it close' Independent on Sunday 'His amiable style provides some good jokes in a book that's as gentle and pleasing as the shipping forecast itself' Daily Mail


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This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales. Sitting at home listening to the shipping forecast can be a cosily reassuring experience. There's no danger of a westerly gale eight, veering southwesterly increasing nine later (visibility poor) gusting through your average suburban living room, blowing the Sunday papers all over the place and startling the cat. Yet familiar though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain. In ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography. Armchair travel will never be the same again.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A very funny trip around the British Isles, 9 Sep 2004
This review is from: Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast (Paperback)
This is a great book! If you have ever wondered where North Utsire is or what it may be like to have a North Easterly Gale force 8 blowing across Lundy, then this is the book for you. Connelly reveals each of the sea areas of the shipping forecast in turn in a very easy to read format. He is quite ready to share with us his failings but he also tells the reader about life on the edge of the coast with a gentleness lost in some others writings. If you liked Bryson, Hawks etc then you will like this book, even if you don't know your Bailey from your Viking.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Notes From Many Small Islands, 20 Jul 2004
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The idea behind "Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast" is so ingenious you wonder why nobody has ever done it before. Whereas many globe-hopping travel writers struggle desperately to come up with increasingly outlandish odysseys, Charlie Connelly has accomplished a much more impressive feat: revealing the extraordinary diversity that exists right here in the British Isles and their near neighbours. In a book brimming with characters and anecdotes, my favourites are the Crown Prince of Sealand (a rusty World War Two military platform in the North Sea) and the Pythonesque women who cheerfully bully their customers into buying Belgian waffles in the Choxaway Café at Land's End Aerodrome.

Whether you view the shipping forecast as a dry, nautical roll call or get all misty at the mere mention of Dogger, Fisher and German Bight, you will find plenty to enjoy in "Attention All Shipping". From beginning to end, Connelly proves a funny and self-deprecating guide, the kind of guy you'd be happy to be stuck on a remote island with-provided he had recovered from his latest bout of seasickness. Five stars.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Force 12, clear, excellent., 29 Jun 2004
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Like many people I love the notion of the shipping forecast but have no idea what any of it means or even the areas it covers. (It stretches from Iceland to Spanish waters)
This book gives a fantastic lesson in all of this without lists of facts and boring essay type instruction.

The author gives a bit of background and history to the areas, a description of the actual forecast and how it's produced and a few personal seafaring stories then sets out to visit as many areas as physically possible.

Each area is written about in the style of modern travel writers such as Pete McCarthy, Bill Bryson, Tony Hawkwes etc and with the same type of humour. The author describes the people he meets and experiences he has rather than focusing on shipping stories.

The scene in Tingwall Airport had me in hysterics with everyone aghast that the author had turned up for 'check in'. The book is also very informative, (did you know there is no road tax on Fair Isle?) and so illuminating in its descriptions that I have booked a trip to Shetland next month to see it for myself.

After reading this I put on my deck shoes and nautical blazer and listened to the shipping forecast and guess what? I understood every word. Brilliant.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant and interesting journey around the British Isles
I received this book as a present from the mother in law, as being a sailor she figured it would interest me. Read more
Published 12 days ago by R. G. Anders

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read
the sort of book you can read time and again. Not just a hilarious travel book but a brilliant insight into the mysterious shipping forecast. Read more
Published 1 month ago by A. tyszka

4.0 out of 5 stars Very well-written and highly entertaining
Travelling around the shipping forecast - areas that are little more than lumps of coastal rock or great swathes of sea - sounds a potentially dreary idea for a travel book, and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jl Adcock

2.0 out of 5 stars Audio Book Review - Great idea but disappointing execution
I must emphasize that this is a review of the audio CD version of this book. It may well be that the abridgment of the full book explains why this review is not as positive as... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Yorkie

5.0 out of 5 stars Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly
Very interesting and entirely what I was looking forward to reading. Having previously read 'And Did Those Feet' by the same author, I was determined to read more of his books... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. Bronwen Turner

4.0 out of 5 stars An incredible journey
I bought this book on something of a whim and found it thoroughly enjoyable. The concept is simple - so simple, in fact that you wonder why it hadn't been tried before (well, not... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Emanon

2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't live up to it's potential
I had no idea what to expect of "Attention All Shipping". I remember hearing the shipping forecast all they way back to childhood and it has always conjured up images of dark... Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. S. Hardman

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and Funny
I enjoyed reading this.Partly because I was sailing round britain at the time - so it was a great introduction to each sea area we entered. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Sam Steele

4.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable
This is a quirky but enjoyable book; Connelly sets himself the challenge of visiting all the areas of the Shipping Forecast that have a land mass within them over a year-long... Read more
Published 17 months ago by M. V. Clarke

5.0 out of 5 stars Cromarty, westerly four, squally wintry showers, good
Four times daily, at 0048, 0535, 1201 and 1754, BBC Radio 4 airs the Shipping Forecast, a weather prognostication for each of thirty-one geographically well-defined but more or... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Joseph Haschka

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