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Winner of the 'Travel Narrative Book of the Year' in 2005 by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW), The Coast Road presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of England and what it is to be English today. In this travelogue, award-winning writer Paul Gogarty travels 3,000 miles in a motorhome, exploring intimate coastal communities and ruminating on the future of the English coast. All points of the compass are covered; after an unsettling benediction at Dover's Eastern Docks he travels to Derek Jarman's Dungeness; to rakish Brighton and Madame Rosina's Bournemouth; the mudflats and Arabian sands of the north-west, where he joins a roomful of George Formbys in Blackpool; the now infamous Morcambe Bay; Billy Butlin's Skegness; and a parachuting vicar. The journey comes full circle in the secret creeks of East Anglia. The Coast Road is a warm-hearted tribute to England's coastline written by a romantic spirit who beautifully captures both the idiosyncrasies of the nation and the euphoria of the open road.
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Paul Gogarty is a contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Guardian and Daily Express. He is travel editor at Cosmopolitan magazine, and from 1992 to 2001 was chief travel writer at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and for three years a regular presenter on BBC 1's Holiday programme.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I have always wanted to journey around the coast in a camper van. Perhaps the book has done what it intended because it has put me right off. It is so depressing. How did the author manage to find so many disaffected and miserable people to meet. I also bought a copy for my sister but I don't think I will send it to her. It wouldn't make a very uplifting present. I would have liked a bit more indication of the content before I bought it.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book to help me plan a road trip to the UK and, interesting as it is, it didn't help me very much. It's more of a novel, full of personal impressions and narrative, but I found it brings very little information of the kind I needed (suggested routes, must-see places, off-the-beaten track hints etc). Again, not a bad book - just not what I needed.
14 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed this book.Gogarty expresses himself well.But in one region alone which I know well,Slapton and Torcross, there are several errors of fact.Ihe previous owner of the Start Bay Inn was called Emberson not Anderson.Locals may refer to outsiders as "grockels" but not "grockos".The late Ken Small used to be found by the Sherman tank in the car park at Torcross not the Slapton Monument car park.
All this in a few pages.So how reliable is the rest of the book?
All this in a few pages.So how reliable is the rest of the book?
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