The Rings of Saturn --with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England.
A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne\'s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt\'s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu.
The Rings of Saturn --with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England