This beautifully crafted piece of work from the author of 'Sea
Room', takes us on a wild and wondrous journey along the shores of
Britain's western seaboard. Leaving his friends and family behind
on the mainland, Adam Nicolson sails from Cornwall to undertake a
six-month voyage into the unknown. From the moment he leaves the
safety of the harbour, his account never flinches from the physical
horrors and dangers of sailing: he is beset by chronic seasickness,
thrown overboard by a freak wave, and the unpredictable storms he
endures make you truly appreciate the comfort of your armchair.
Somehow, Nicolson allows us to feel the extraordinary enormity of
the sea and the spirituality which it goes with it. Peaceful walks
on tiny islands and intriguing encounters with fascinating people
complement the treacherous nights he spends alone at the wheel.
'Atlantic Britain' is both a delightful and romantic read which, at
times, unfurls like an eloquent poem. Its lyrical yet bold style
makes it the most unorthodox love story you are ever likely to come
across. (Kirkus UK)
Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam
Nicolson's adventure in a small boat around the western coast of
the British Isles. Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to
leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go on an
adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a forty-two-foot wooden ketch,
and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the
Atlantic coasts of the British Isles: Cornwall to Scilly, over to
Pembrokeshire and the west of Ireland, to the Hebrides and its
offliers, St Kilda and North Rona, before heading on to Orkney, and
finally to the Faroes, a two hundred mile leap out into the autumn
winds of the North Atlantic. But the book is not just a travel
journal. Adam Nicolson writes of his own yearnings for the sea and
for wide open spaces. His year is strung between the competing
claims of leaving and belonging, of thinking that no life could be
more exhilarating than battling a big gale driving in out of the
Atlantic and of wanting to be back, in harbour, safe, still and
protected. Running throughout the book is a dialogue within the
author himself between the attractions of home and not home, the
certainties of what you know and the seductions of what you don't.
Reflective and poetic, this book is full of rich experience. It is
a story passionately engaged with the beauty and marvels of the
wild Atlantic coast, but is also a self-portrait of a man in the
middle of his life who is determined to find out what it's all for.
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