Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34122 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
Winner of the 'Travel Narrative Book of the Year' in 2005 by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW), "The Coast Road" presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of England and what it is to be English today. In this travelogue, award-winning writer Paul Gogarty travels 3,000 miles in a motorhome, exploring intimate coastal communities and ruminating on the future of the English coast. All points of the compass are covered; after an unsettling benediction at Dover's Eastern Docks he travels to Derek Jarman's Dungeness; to rakish Brighton and Madame Rosina's Bournemouth; the mudflats and Arabian sands of the north-west, where he joins a roomful of George Formbys in Blackpool; the now infamous Morcambe Bay; Billy Butlin's Skegness; and a parachuting vicar. The journey comes full circle in the secret creeks of East Anglia. "The Coast Road" is a warm-hearted tribute to England's coastline written by a romantic spirit who beautifully captures both the idiosyncrasies of the nation and the euphoria of the open road. "The Coast Road" was also the recent winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers Best Narrative Travel Book Award.

Customer Reviews

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I enjoyed this book.Gogarty expresses himself well.But in one region alone which I know well,Slapton and Torcross, there are several errors of fact.Ihe previous owner of the Start Bay Inn was called Emberson not Anderson.Locals may refer to outsiders as "grockels" but not "grockos".The late Ken Small used to be found by the Sherman tank in the car park at Torcross not the Slapton Monument car park.
All this in a few pages.So how reliable is the rest of the book?