The Kingdom by the Sea : A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020
After eleven years living as an American in London, award-winning writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast to 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 is a round-Britain travelogue that is funny, perceptive and superbly vivid—though perhaps 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure'.
Theroux proves himself 'a sharp and funny descriptive writer' with 'a golden talent for the ability to chat up and get on with all sorts and conditions of British'. His journey uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s, filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments. As Anthony Burgess noted in the Observer: '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.'
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