by Belloc · Cluster: Travel Writing · Pilgrimage · Landscape

Abstract

Belloc’s reflective travel-memoir framed as a solo sail of his boat the Nona along the coasts of Britain. Storms and near-drownings alternate with meditations on fear and courage, faith, small kingdoms versus great states, words, politics and the past, so the voyage becomes a model of one human life.

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Readability (prose)-219.8 Flesch ease117.8 FK grade122.9 Fog10% complex297.5 words/sent

Connections

Forms & Genres: Travel Writing, Essay, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Faith, Courage, Fear, Memory and Time, Nostalgia, Self-Sufficiency, History Motifs: Sea, Ship, Storm, Wind, Sea and Voyage Historical References: First World War, Catholic Church, Danish Invasions Settings: Sea (2), Ship Archetypes: The Writer Topoi: Journey of Life

Also relevant to: Faith · Providence · Divine Love