The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain
by PAUL THEROUX
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671525794
- ISBN 13
- 9780671525798
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is the chronicle of a train journey around the coast of Great Britain, taken in 1982 by the American travel writer Paul Theroux.
It was a best-seller; this is the tenth printing of the first edition.
Houghton Mifflin Boston, 1983.
Hardcover, 353 pages.
Pale yellow cloth cover with a navy blue design on the cover and a navy blue spine with brilliant gold lettering.
The dust jacket has minor wear; bumps and bruises.
The book is pristine; it does not appear to have been read and there are no marks in it or on it.
Synopsis
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured their rich and varied conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating insight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 449
- Title
- The Kingdom by the Sea
- Author
- PAUL THEROUX
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671525794
- ISBN 13
- 9780671525798
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Journey Around Great Britain, Railway Journey
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Society; British History; Adventure, Travel & Exploration;
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