Brittorrent

Not sure if anyone has read the book Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd, but it's a fascinating piece of historical fiction, spanning 10,000 years and the lives of five families in high Michener style. What I've never forgotten about the book is its opening chapter, which follows a Stone Age man as he watches a massively huge flood pour down the valley separating what are today England and France. The flood is so cataclysmically huge that it creates the English channel--not an inauspicious start for a novel. Well, it turns out that Rutherfurd wasn't merely embellishing. Scientists have recently studied sonar scans of the channel and confirmed that Britain became separated from Europe after a catastrophic flood over 200,000 years ago.