{"product_id":"2940016720340","title":"The Channel Islands","description":"If on a fine day we take our stand on one of the terraces, or  \u003cbr\u003ebattlements, of Mont Orgueil Castle--and there is hardly a pleasanter  \u003cbr\u003espot in Jersey in which to idle away a sunny summer afternoon--we  \u003cbr\u003eshall realize more completely than geography books can tell us that  \u003cbr\u003ethe Channel Islands really constitute the last remnants of the ancient  \u003cbr\u003eNorman dukedom that still belong to the English Crown. For there,  \u003cbr\u003eacross the water, not more than twenty miles away, and stretching from  \u003cbr\u003enorth of Carteret far southwards towards Granville and Mont St.  \u003cbr\u003eMichel, is the long white line of the Norman coast itself--on a clear  \u003cbr\u003eday it is even possible to make out the tall, twin spires of  \u003cbr\u003eCoutances, half a dozen miles inland, crowning, like Lincoln or Ely,  \u003cbr\u003etheir far-seen hill. No part of France, it is true, approaches so  \u003cbr\u003eclosely to Jersey as Cap de la Hague (the extreme north-west point of  \u003cbr\u003ethe Cotentin) approaches to the north-east corner of Alderney. Still,  \u003cbr\u003eunder certain atmospheric conditions--such, for example, as Wordsworth  \u003cbr\u003eexperienced when he wrote his fine sonnet headed _Near Dover,  \u003cbr\u003eSeptember, 1802_--the \"span of waters\"--hardly greater than the  \u003cbr\u003eStraits of Dover themselves--really seems almost to shrink to the  \u003cbr\u003edimensions of \"a lake or river bright and fair.\" Contrast with this  \u003cbr\u003eproximity the long stretches of open sea that separate these islands  \u003cbr\u003efrom Weymouth or Southampton, and we begin to realize how, physically  \u003cbr\u003eat any rate, Jersey is more properly France than England.","brand":"Writermore Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101563568368,"sku":"2940016720340","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016720340_p0.jpg?v=1763640552","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016720340","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}