The Kingdom by the Sea (Paperback)

from turtlesleap

I enjoy old travel books and tend to pick them up at local book sales if they look halfway promising . This one is a narrative of Theroux' experiences as he spent three months on a trip he undertook to circumnavigate Great Britain. The books is dated, of course. It was written in the mid-1980's b...

from jcbrunner

Traveling along the whole coast of the United Kingdom sounds like a daunting task. The joy of traveling in Great Britain is that one can reach any place reasonably fast by road or train by its hub and spoke system centered on London. Relying on the failing tangential railroads and doing it at the...

from untraveller

Portions of the Mother Land are fun, others are not. Theroux does a really nice job in dissecting and winnowing out the worm from the apple. Most was fun to read....especially the part about Wales and Cape Wrath.

from sarcher

I just finished my second read through and this might be my favorite Theroux travel writing. The Falklands home front reminds me of the prevailing attitude of Americans these days, locked in a forever war where it's about 'our boys' and the remoteness of the conflict strips it all of all meaning ...

from untraveller

Portions of the Mother Land are fun, others are not. Theroux does a really nice job in dissecting and winnowing out the worm from the apple. Most was fun to read....especially the part about Wales and Cape Wrath.