{"product_id":"kingdom-by-the-sea-1","title":"Kingdom By The Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the ''80s in \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain\u003c\/i\u003e.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Theroux''s round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and ''best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid and engaging reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A sharp and funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents, perhaps because he is American and therefore classless in British eyes, is the ability to chat up and get on with all sorts and conditions of British. . . Theroux is a good companion'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments'' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly'' Anthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles, \u003ci\u003eRiding the Iron Rooster\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Happy Isles of Oceania\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunrise with Seamonsters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhost Train to the Eastern Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Patagonian Express\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDark Star Safari\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFresh-air Fiend\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSir Vidia''s Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pillars of Hercules\u003c\/i\u003e, and his novels and collections of short stories, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner\u003ci\u003e The Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e are available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320262861182,"sku":"NW9780140071818","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780140071818.jpg?v=1778238895","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/kingdom-by-the-sea-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}