Passage To Juneau by Jonathan Raban Paperback Book

Description: Passage To Juneau by Jonathan Raban An entrancing chronicle of the voyage from Seattle to the Alaskan capital from the late Anglo-American master of letters, Jonathan Raban. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description His erudition is enorous, his prose as beautiful and clear as the blue ocean on a crisp morning . . . Passage to Juneau is a wonderfully fluid read - Sunday TimesPassage to Juneau is an account of Rabans voyage from Seattle to the Alaskan capital by boat, and the devastating news that awaits him when he returns to dry land. In Rabans capable hands, the passage from Seattle to Alaska is less a journey than a backdrop for musings on history, art, myth, and philosophy.Reissued with a new introduction from Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey, this is extraordinary travel writing, defying at every turns the constrains of genre.Raban at his best - Ian McEwan Author Biography Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. Over the span of six decades, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literatures Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and the Governors Award of the State of Washington. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023. Review Rabans inability to write a mere travel book opens the way for Passage to Juneau to become something richer and stranger: a book that defies categories, unless it simply be called a portrait of the journeying soul . . . Evoking the sea, Raban is incomparable * Times Literary Supplement *A moving, complex mosaic of memory, history and adventure * Sunday Telegraph *Passage to Juneau is a rich and complex book – a beautifully crafted travelogue, a subtle exercise in anthropology and an involving account of the personal crises which gripped Raban during his voyage to Alaska * Express on Sunday *Jonathan Raban is one of the most satisfying writers of his generation * Observer *This is an extraordinary book . . . The epic jounrey through the eddies, rips, whirlpools, and various other marine terrors quickly becomes intensely personal . . . Passage to Juneau is far more thna a meditation on the sea and its meanings; it is also an unsparing self-exaomination, written with mordant humour and forensic ruthlessness * Telegraph *A thrilling adventure and a telling internal exploration . . . the writing contains natural description of breathtaking exactness . . . and the sea itself – in all its moods – has surely never been so intricately painted * Evening Standard *His erudition is enormous, his prose as beautiful and clear as the blue ocean on a crisp morning and his sense of joy at having found his place in the world is immensely rewarding. Passage to Juneau is a wonderfully fluid read. It is also a thought-provoking and challenging work that is likely to splash around in the memory long after the volume has been consigned to the shelf * Sunday Times *Rabans journey itself is most beautifully told, vivid and fresh with observation * Spectator *A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervour * Washington Post * Promotional A reissue of the late master travel writers magnum opus, with a new introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Details ISBN1035034530 Author Jonathan Raban Pages 448 Publisher Pan Macmillan Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781035034536 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-09-14 Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2023-09-14 ISBN-10 1035034530 DEWEY 910.45092 Audience General Audience Age 18 NZ Release Date 2024-04-29 AU Release Date 2024-04-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144666413;

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