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Adrift In Caledonia - Boat-Hitching for the Unenlightened (Paperback, New Ed)
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Adrift In Caledonia - Boat-Hitching for the Unenlightened (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
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One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat,
ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little
white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first
mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would take
him 2500 miles through Scotland's canals, lochs and coastal waters,
from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking
Shetland. Writing with characteristic humour and candour, the
award-winning author of EIGHT MEN AND A DUCK plots a curiously
existential voyage, inspired by those who have left the warm hearth
for the promise of a stretched horizon. Whether rowing a coracle
with a chapter of monks, scanning for the elusive Nessie, hitting
the rocks with Captain Calamity or clinging to the rigging of a
tall ship, Thorpe weaves a narrative that is by turns funny and
poignant - a nautical pilgrimage for any who have ever been tempted
to try a new path just to see where it might take them. Part
travelogue, part memoir, ADRIFT IN CALEDONIA is a unique and
affectionate portrait of a sea-fringed nation - and of the
drifter's quest to belong.
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