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Passage to Juneau
Jonathan Raban
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Description for Passage to Juneau
Paperback. 'This is Raban at his best, which is saying a great deal' Ian McEwan Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 1KBC; 1QSPN; BG; TRLN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 366.
'Raban is, for my money, one of the key writers of the past three decades - not only for his immense stylistic showmanship, but also for the way he has taken that amorphous genre call ''travel writing'' and utterly redefined its frontiers... Passage to Juneau is his finest achievement to date. Ostensibly an account of a voyage Raban took from his new home in Seattle to the Alaskan capital through that labyrinthine sea route called the Inside Passage, it is, in essence, a book about the nature of loss.... You close this extraordinary book marvelling at this most distressing but ... Read more
'Raban is, for my money, one of the key writers of the past three decades - not only for his immense stylistic showmanship, but also for the way he has taken that amorphous genre call ''travel writing'' and utterly redefined its frontiers... Passage to Juneau is his finest achievement to date. Ostensibly an account of a voyage Raban took from his new home in Seattle to the Alaskan capital through that labyrinthine sea route called the Inside Passage, it is, in essence, a book about the nature of loss.... You close this extraordinary book marvelling at this most distressing but ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330346290
SKU
V9780330346290
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban is the author of Passage to Juneau, Bad Land , Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City and the novels Foreign Land (1985) and Waxwings (2003). His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' ... Read more
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