This "interesting, insightful book" by the author of
Deep South reveals "a side of Britain few visitors see" (
The New York Times Book Review).
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.
"A sharp and funny descriptive writer . . . Theroux is a good companion." —
The Times (London)
- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Topic
Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
TravelTable of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- 1. The 11:33 to Margate
- 2. An Evening Train to Deal
- 3. The Branch Line to Hastings
- 4. The 18:11 to Bognor Regis
- 5. A Morning Train to the Isle of Wight
- 6. The Inter-City 125 to Plymouth
- 7. The Cornish Explorer
- 8. The Branch Line to Barnstaple
- 9. The West Somerset Railway
- 10. The 16:28 to Tenby
- 11. The 10:32 to Criccieth
- 12. The 20:20 to Llandudno Junction
- 13. The 16:01 to Southport
- 14. The West Cumbria Line
- 15. The Boat Train to Ulster
- 16. The 10:23 to Londonderry
- 17. The 15:53 to Belfast
- 18. The 16:30 to Mallaig
- 19. The Flyer to Cape Wrath
- 20. The 14:40 to Aberdeen
- 21. The 9:51 to Leuchars Junction
- 22. The Last Train to Whitby
- 23. Disused Railway Line
- 24. The North Norfolk Railway
- 25. Striking Southend
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