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Coasting/a Private Voyage - Hardcover

Raban, Jonathan

 
9780671454807: Coasting/a Private Voyage
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0671454803 ISBN 13: 9780671454807
Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when heâ€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 heâ€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 descriptions 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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Verlag
Simon & Schuster
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0671454803
ISBN 13 
9780671454807
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