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1974 HARDCOVER IN EXCELLENT CONDITION OVERALL - the pages are very clear and readable; a tiny bit of writing on first blank page, and some foxing on second page; covers have minor wear.Between the south coast of England and the continent of Europe lies a sleeve of sea that, at one point, narrows to a distance of a bare nineteen miles. That is why the English refer to it as "the channel." Geologically speaking, the English Channel is of fairly recent formation, for the British mainland was not completely separated from the rest of the European continent until about 7,000 B.C. The earliest human fossil found in the British Isles has been dated at about a quarter of a million years. This would place it in the interglacial period.