
The Seaside: England's Love Affair (Hardback)
Madeleine Bunting (author)Published: 04/05/2023

From Scarborough to Blackpool, Bunting leads the reader on a fascinating and elegiac journey through English seaside resorts, exploring the nation’s enduring love affair with them as well as their current economic struggles.
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country, England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy beaches, salt marshes, and estuaries cutting deep inland.
On these coastal edges England's great holiday resorts grew up, developed in the early eighteenth century originally as spas for medicinal bathing but soon morphing into places of pleasure, entertainment, fantasy and adventure.
Acclaimed writer Madeleine Bunting journeyed clockwise around England from Scarborough to Blackpool to understand the enduring appeal of seaside towns, and what has happened to the golden sands, cold seas and donkey rides of childhood memory. Taking in some forty resorts, staying in hotels, caravans and holiday camps, she swims from their beaches and talks to their residents to delve into their landscapes, histories and contemporary plight.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781783787173
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 619 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 28 mm
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