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  • Coasting

  • A Private Journey
  • By: Jonathan Raban
  • Narrated by: James Langton
  • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Coasting

By: Jonathan Raban
Narrated by: James Langton
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Publisher's 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 listen to 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 listens to it with pleasure.

©1987 Foreign Land Ltd. (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
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I've been waiting for this book, although I never knew it. Was to me like an easy conversation, interesting and edifying.

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