Adrift In Caledonia
Boat-Hitching for the Unenlightened
One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would take him 2500 miles through Scotland's canals, lochs and coastal waters, from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking Shetland. Writing with characteristic humour and candour, the award-winning author of EIGHT MEN AND A DUCK plots a curiously existential voyage, inspired by those who have left the warm hearth for the promise of a stretched horizon. Whether rowing a coracle wit…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7481-1455-9
- EAN: 9780748114559
- Produktnummer: 22595702
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 545 KB
- Abbildungen: Section: 8
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