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The Local Guide to Guernsey 2011

This Book is a local persons Guide to visiting the Channel Island of Guernsey. The insights given come from a local's perspective and provide visitors with interesting background information about the Island and its history. If you bring your Kindle with you to Guernsey you will then have a valuable asset which will help ensure you enjoy your holiday to the full as it is packed with contact details and ideas on things to do.

This Book is a local persons Guide to visiting the Channel Island of Guernsey. The insights given come from a local's perspective and provide visitors with interesting background information about the Island and its history. If you bring your Kindle with you to Guernsey you will then have a valuable asset which will help ensure you enjoy your holiday to the full as it is packed with contact details and ideas on things to do.

Plaque remembering Guernsey residents who died from a German Air Raid on June 28th 1940: Basil T Anquetil; Walter J Batiste, Clifford M Bougourd; Alice Brehaut; George C Brehaut; Nerbert W Cambridge; Francis T Collenette; Frank A De Garis; Lilian M De Jausserand; Samuel De Jausserand; Olive M Ferbrache; Frederick R Gillmore; Gerald A Heaume; Harold F Hobbs, Henry Ingrouille; Harold G Le Cheminant; Herbert W Le Maitre; PIerre Le Nourr; Frank J Le Page, Franc J Le Page [sic]; Roy Le Page; John W Mahy; Alfred Marquis; Marcel F Mauduit; Cecil C Norman; John R Renouf; Amy L Robert; Daisy M Robert; John E Barre; Walter Barre; Carles Stichman; John F Tardivel; John W Walker and Joseph E Way. Also comemorating Guernsey civilians who died on the island and elsewhere from hostilities during WW2.

A heavy attractor of insects. Note the little wasp-like hover-fly. You can't see it in this picture but later a little white cobweb spider (Enoplognatha ovata) decided to live here, growing fat on the visiting pollinators.

English: Buckwheat
Dutch: Boekweit
French: ?
Jersey Norman-French: Sarrasin (male)
Guernsey Dialect Name: Sarrazin (male)
German: Buchweizen
Afrikaans: Bokwiet
Danish: Boghvede
Japanese: ?? (??), pronounced 'soba' (?). The pink flowered variety is called ?????? (????)

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island.

G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph
of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.


"Imagine a weekend spent in deep conversation with a superb old man, a crusty, intelligent, passionate and individualistic character at the peak of his powers as a raconteur, and you will have a very good ideas of the impact of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page...It amuses, it entertains, it moves us...” –The Washington Post

"A true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious, it seems drenched with the harsh tidal beauties of its setting...For every person nearing retirement, every latent writer who hopes to leave his island and find the literary mainland, its author–quiet, self-sufficient, tidy Homeric–remains a patron saint." –Allan Gurganus, O Magazine

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