Andrew Watts

We do love to be beside the seaside

Wyl Menmuir interviews surfers, wild-life watchers, beachcombers and marine artists to discover what makes the sea so irresistible

‘Clearing a wreck on the north coast of Cornwall’, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1822. [Getty Images] 
issue 13 August 2022

  • The Draw of the Sea

    Wyl Menmuir

    Aurum, pp. 288, £16

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