The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia.
The result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human..
From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald\'s own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms.
The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia