Voyage Of Discovery

We are surrounded and shaped by the sea and now a new Norfolk book celebrates this sea-faring, sea-facing, sea-hugging county,  writes ROWAN MANTELL

- Rowan Mantell

SO, HOW do eels from slow-flowing Fenland rivers reappear in the swirling Sargasso Sea? What was the Hanseatic League? And what is the difference between a kipper and bloater? A herring and a red herring?

Cheery red herrings swim alongside the mix of stories and histories, facts and sketches in Judith Ellis’ first book, Two Points East – A View of Maritime Norfolk. She has cast her net wide and drawn in an impressive haul of fascinating coastal characters, places, architecture and innovation.

She is herself a compendium of apparently disparate careers and interests, bookbinder, boat-lover, veterinary surgeon, sailor, artist – and now author.