Coasting

Author: Jonathan Raban

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Price : $20.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780002721196
Publisher : Collins Harvill
Imprint : Collins Harvill
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Weight (g) : 0.605
Publication date : 01 January 1986
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Author : Jonathan Raban
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Bind : Hardback with dustjacket
Edition : first edition
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Reading Level : very good
Pages : 304
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9780002721196

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Name on front endpaper, fxing to edges, dustjacket light edgewear

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Coasting round Britain single-handed in an antique two-masted sailing boat, Jonathan Raban conducts a masterly exploration of England and the English at ttime 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 andferries on a collision course, so he navigates the complex and turbulent waters ohis own middle age. Coasting is a fearless attempt to discover the meaning of belonging and of his English homeland.

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