The Way to the Sea Caroline Crampton, Granta, £16.99 The Frayed Atlantic Edge David Gange, William Collins, £18.99 Seawater pulses through the veins of our islands, the tang of open water reaching to the furthest points inland. Insularity has always been our destiny, determining daily life and deepest meanings even before Albion loomed out of… Continue reading
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New review – The Way to the Sea by Caroline Crampton and The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
Latest review The latest (10th July) Country Life contains my combined review of two absorbing books on watery themes – Caroline Crampton’s The Way to the Sea: Forgotten Histories of the Thames, her source-to-sea account of London’s river, and David Gange’s The Frayed Atlantic Edge, his account of a kayaking trip from Shetland to Cornwall