The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

After eleven years as an American residing in London, the famend journey author Paul Theroux got down to journey clockwise round the coast of Great Britain to search out out what the British had been actually like. The result’s this perceptive, hilarious document of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the folks he encountered alongside the means revealed way more of themselves than they maybe supposed to show to a stranger. Theroux captured their wealthy and diversified conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating perception.

“A sharp and humorous descriptive author . . . Theroux is an effective companion.” —The Times (London)