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Title: Coasting: A Private Voyage
Author: Jonathan Raban
ISBN: 9780140106572
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of
Bad Land turns that voyage which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982-into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home.
Whether he s chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read
Coasting for his precise naturalistic s or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.”
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