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Kingdom by the Sea (Essential Modern Classics) (Collins Modern Classics)

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This new novel by the author of Blitzcat and Ghost Abbey evinces a crackling pace that will keep pulses racing. The bittersweet taste it leaves in the mouth is easily the book's best feature, because it shows how one has bonded with the book's characters along the way.

At best it's outdated, at worst it's deliberately misleading -- without him making the same trip again, it's tough to say which it is. The boy's struggle for survival, and the relationships he builds during his travels are wonderfully written and very touching. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that in my country only drunks, or lunatics, or social misfits ever talk to strangers.The grandfather said, "Aah used to reckon they were mad, leaving the door unlocked when they weren't here, and that notice on the table. Everyone seemed to be going to China that year, or else writing rude things about the Arabs, or being frank about Africa. And then, during the last 2 weeks of his journey around Britain, there was a rail strike and he became dependent on bus and hitch-hiking to get around.

Oft hatte ich den Eindruck, als ob er eher Vorurteile bestätigt haben wollte als sich wirklich mit dem, was er sah, auseinander zu setzen. I can't imagine anyone not liking this book as it is such a good story and so well written and not just for kids / teens. It was man's best machine traversing earth's best feature -- the train tracking in the narrow angle between vertical rock and horizontal water. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Paul Theroux undertook his journey round the coast of the United Kingdom exactly 25 years ago, in 1982. His novels include The Lower River and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari.

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