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Coasting: A Private Voyage

Raban, Jonathan

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From the national bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Bad Land comes "a lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self" (The New York Times Book Review).

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 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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VINTAGE

Bisac Major Subject

Travel

Bisac Minor Subject

Europe - Great Britain

Binding Type

Paperback

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Length

8.1 Inches

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5.4 Inches

Publication Date

2003-02-04

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0.7 Inches

ISBN 10

0375725938

Weight

0.49 Pounds

Book EAN

9780375725937

Target Audiance

Adults

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