Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

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Jake Tyler, author of A Walk from the Wild Edge'An honest and exciting tale of how a dream became an aw Elise had a new job, flat and relationship and they were all making her utterly miserable. Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England.

The author/narrator is very authentic and the writing and reading styles carried me as a listener along with them on the highs and lows of the journey undertaken. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2021Running away from your problems doesn't solve anything - but sometimes it's more fun than dealing with themElise was spending a lot of time crying on buses. Raban has coasted through yet another term,” his housemaster’s report said, “and I can hold out little hope for prospects in the forthcoming examinations. I certainly enjoyed her book and raced through it - it was a good holiday read as I was walking a section of the South West Coast Path for a week - I enjoyed reading about her journey through the beautiful Dorset coast. Anyhow, the major part of the book is about the landlubbers, the Falkland war, parents and a few (actually quite funny) pages about meeting Paul Theroux (which Theroux also describes in his 'Kingdom by the sea').But if you don’t have the opportunity to travel, you can still go Coasting with Jonathan Raban in this superbly written book, a true classic of the genre. Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible. Also, not being responsible enough to keep appointments with people who are trying to support her and being bailed out by her parents multiple times to just be annoying. Unemployment was rife, traditional jobs disappearing taking with them a way of life generations in the making. I grew up with a sentimentalised version of the English past, of the enshrined holiness of the squire in the grand house and the tenant farmer and the exact place you occupied.

I really felt like I got to know Elise and worryingly, she is so inspirational, I've signed up for a marathon! He moves seamlessly between awkward memories of childhood as the son of a vicar, a vivid chronicle of the shape-shifting sea and incisive descriptions of the people and communities he encounters. her cross, nanny's voice made it sound as if there had been ructions in the nursery and the children were going to be sent to bed without any tea. I love hiking, one of the reasons is how remote things are and that there is nobody else around, bliss for me.A hugel Each trip back to shore gives him little updates on what is happening, he tends to be disgusted with what he reads in the papers, especially The Sun and it blood hungry racist slurs, these all make him desperate to get back out to sea. Dave Cornthwaite'Reading Coasting is like listening to a friend tell a tale down the pub that you can't quite believe.

Elise Downing, with absolutely no ultra-running experience, unable to read a map and having never pitched a tent alone before, set off to run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain, carrying her kit on her back. I didn’t think this was quite as good as Old Glory, but I don’t think it is as easy for an author to understand their home country as sometimes it is for an outsider to do. Over the 301 days that followed, she developed a debilitating fear of farmyard animals, cried on a lot of beaches and saw Britain at its most wild and wonderful. and adds, 'Listening to it, I felt that I'd been eavesdropping on the nastier workings of the national subconscious; I'd overheard Britain talking in a dream, and what it was saying scared me stiff.The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition. There is little description of the places she visits, outside of the challenges of the running itself.

While I appreciate that the book is a summary of the author's time spent running, it just didn't resonate with me as much as I had hoped. Raban hangs out with bored tax exiles in an Isle of Man casino, goes fishing with crabbers in Lyme Regis and plays at being a tourist in his home city, London.His awkward church parsonage childhood, the poverty and class consciousness, and his incipient middle age, all reflected amidst the sea-shifting background of his journey, conveys something fundamental about the nation and culture, something you need to venture beyond the limits of London to discover. I read Raban's Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings years ago and really enjoyed it, and so with this book years later, I absolutely loved it. A couple of years ago I read The Salt Path by Raynor Winn and I was really hoping to get the same enjoyment and vibes from Coasting.