Coasting

Descriere Coasting

`A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman \n \n \n `The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian \n \n \n `Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman Rushdie \n \n Coasting round Britain single-handed in an antique two-masted sailing boat, Jonathan Raban conducts a masterly exploration of England and the English at the time of Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War. He moves seamlessly between awkward memories of childhood as the son of a vicar, a vivid chronicle of the shape-shifting sea and incisive descriptions of the people and communities he encounters. As he faces his terror of racing water, eddies, offshore sandbars and ferries on a collision course, so he navigates the complex and turbulent waters of his own middle age. Coasting is a fearless attempt to discover the meaning of belonging and of his English homeland. \n

Detalii

Brand

ELAND

Categorie

ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781780601380

Magazine

1

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in stock