'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and
cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman
'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The
Guardian 'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman Rushdie
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.
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