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Title: Great premise foiled by political agenda
Review: The idea of sailing aroung the British Isles in a small boat sounds appealing and will be a dream for all but a few. Unfortunately Raban will lose many reader's beyond the first few chapters as he weaves his leftist anti-establishment banter in with the said theme of the book. I got the feeling he used the book a vehicle for threshing out his politcal bias. Come on, please! I suggest he re-write the book and let it take it's place as a modern nautical classic. He can write so well but this reader had trouble with the fact that Coasting should have been two books, not one.
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