Bibliograph

The kingdom by the sea, a journey around the coast of Great Britain, Paul Theroux

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The kingdom by the sea, a journey around the coast of Great Britain, Paul Theroux

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The kingdom by the sea

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Paul Theroux

Sub title

a journey around the coast of Great Britain

Summary

After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured their rich and varied conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating insight

Target audience

adult

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