After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured their rich and varied conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating insight.

在作为美国人在伦敦生活了11年之后，著名旅行作家保罗-特鲁开始顺时针环绕大不列颠海岸旅行，以了解英国人到底是什么样子。其结果是这本敏锐的、搞笑的旅程记录。无论是在康沃尔郡还是威尔士，阿尔斯特还是苏格兰，他沿途遇到的人们所透露的自己的信息远远超过了他们可能打算向陌生人展示的内容。特鲁以尖刻的智慧和敏锐的洞察力捕捉到了他们丰富多样的谈话评论。