Coasting: 11 (Picador Travel Classics) - Hardcover

Raban, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330343955 ISBN 13: 9780330343954

Publisher: Picador, 1995

Synopsis

This text tells the story of how in 1982 the author set out alone in a 30-foot ketch to sail round the British Isles. Raban had never before handled a boat at sea, but wanted to inspect the country where he lived as an independent navigator with a sceptical outsider's eye for his homeland. He sails into his own past, into Britain's troubled present, and into a sense of reflection.

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Review:

A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self. "The New York Times Book Review"
Coasting is a glorious book, written with energy, wit and a melancholy lyricism . . . There's something wonderful on every page of this book. "The Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer
" Marvelously written and superbly constructed. . . . The sort of book you put among those favorite books you keep on your desk or table . . . the sort you wish you had written yourself. Beryl Bainbridge, "The Spectator"
Raban is . . . one of our most gifted observers. "Newsday""

"A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self." --The New York Times Book Review

"Coasting is a glorious book, written with energy, wit and a melancholy lyricism . . . There's something wonderful on every page of this book." --The Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer

"Marvelously written and superbly constructed. . . . The sort of book you put among those favorite books you keep on your desk or table . . . the sort you wish you had written yourself." -- Beryl Bainbridge, The Spectator

"Raban is . . . one of our most gifted observers." --Newsday

Book Description:

'Sharp...funy...a marvellous attempt to discover the meaning of home' Ian Jack, Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0330343955
• ISBN 13: 9780330343954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368