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Author Raban, Jonathan.

Title Coasting / Jonathan Raban.

Publication Info. [United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2022.
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Edition Unabridged.
Description 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 37 min.)) : digital
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Cast Read by James Langton.
Summary Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he's sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-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. "A lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self." "Coasting is a glorious book, written with energy, wit, and a melancholy lyricism…There's something wonderful on every page of this book." "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." "Raban is…one of our most gifted observers."
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Raban, Jonathan -- Travel -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Coasts -- Great Britain.
National characteristics, British.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Added Author Langton, James.
Note subtitle on dust jacket: A private voyage
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ISBN 9798200957026 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
8200957020 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Music No. MWT15203574
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