Coasting
Author(s): Jonathan Raban
Coasting round Britain single-handed in an antique two-masted sailing boat, Jonathan Raban conducts a masterly exploration of England and the English at ttime 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 andferries on a collision course, so he navigates the complex and turbulent waters ohis own middle age. Coasting is a fearless attempt to discover the meaning of belonging and of his English homeland.
Name on front endpaper, fxing to edges, dustjacket light edgewear
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Collins Harvill
- : Collins Harvill
- : 0.605
- : January 1986
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jonathan Raban
- : Hardback with dustjacket
- : first edition
- : very good
- : 304