{"product_id":"coasting","title":"Jonathan Raban: Coasting [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman Rushdie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoasting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raban, Jonathan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44756134592802,"sku":"9781780601380","price":16.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46977845002579,"sku":"XV81780601380","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/raban-jonathan-jonathan-raban-coasting-2018-paperback-1119532690.jpg?v=1738663680","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/coasting","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}