The Kingdom by the Sea. A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain, Paperback/Paul Theroux
After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Author(s): Paul Theroux Number of pages: 368 Publication date: 1985 Dimensions: 200 x 129 x 24 Cover type: Paperback / softback