The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain

Rating:
Summary: Departure! Nice travel book
Review: "The Kingdom by the Sea is filled with history, insights, landscape,ephiphanies. meditations, celebrations and laments"- The New York Times

From the white cliffs of Dover to Cornwall and Wales, on to Ulster and Scotland, Paul Theroux sets out on a three-month journey around Britain's coast. In the bestselling tradition of The Old Patagonian Express, he presents a vivid portrait of a complex country and its people....decent, quirky, private, baffling and endlessly eccentric.

"Distinctive..Lyric...perversely appealing...Theroux leavens his narrative with sardonic humor." -The Chicago Tribune Book World

"Impertinent and often brilliant"- Philadelphia Inquirer