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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Coasting
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Verlag:
Eland Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: NDYYWWZ
EAN: 9781780601380
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2
Zustellung: Fr, 12.06.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 27.–
Beschreibung
'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record. ' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman'The finest writer afloat since Conrad. ' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian'Unfailingly witty and entertaining. ' Salman RushdieCoasting round Britain single-handed in an antique two-masted sailing boat, Jonathan Raban conducts a masterly exploration of England and the English at the time of Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War. He moves seamlessly between awkward memories of childhood as the son of a vicar, a vivid chronicle of the shape-shifting sea and incisive descriptions of the people and communities he encounters. As he faces his terror of racing water, eddies, offshore sandbars and ferries on a collision course, so he navigates the complex and turbulent waters of his own middle age. Coasting is a fearless attempt to discover the meaning of belonging and of his English homeland.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jonathan Raban
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2018
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 240