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Passage To Juneau
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Author : Jonathan Raban
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Passage To Juneau written by Jonathan Raban and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Travel categories.
An entrancing travelogue from celebrated writer, Jonathan Raban. First published in 1999, Passage to Juneau is an account of Raban's personal journey from Seattle to the Alaskan Capital by boat through the meandering sea route, the Inside Passage, told in parallel to the same voyage taken by Captain George Vancouver in the late eighteenth century. Described by Ian McEwan as 'Raban at his best', this is extraordinary travel writing, told from two very different perspectives. A book about the idea of loss, Raban is home but still, he is very much still at sea.
Passage To Juneau
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Author : Jonathan Raban
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-06-22
Passage To Juneau written by Jonathan Raban and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with Travel categories.
The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss. "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers—between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class.
Passage To Juneau
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Author : Jonathan Raban
language : en
Publisher: Picador USA
Release Date : 2000
Passage To Juneau written by Jonathan Raban and has been published by Picador USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Alaska categories.
'A moving, complex mosaic of memory, history and adventure'-Sunday TelegraphFollowing his dusty travels for Bad Land-described as a 'blazing classic' and whose many prizes included the US National Book Critics Circle Award-Jonathan Raban returns to sea, sailing up the coast of Canada to Juneau in Alaska.'Most beautifully told, vivid and fresh with observation. It looks like a travel book, but it's much less expected and more troubling than that'-Spectator'Unlike other travel books this is the genuine article... it is a thrilling adventure'-The Times'This is an extraordinary book. The voyage itself is fascinating... his observations are of the highest order'-Daily Telegraph
Coasting
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Author : Jonathan Raban
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-09-07
Coasting written by Jonathan Raban and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-07 with Travel categories.
From the national bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Bad Land comes “a lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self” (The New York Times Book Review). Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage–which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982-into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. Whether he’s chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read Coasting for his precise naturalistic descriptions or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.
Haunted Inside Passage
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Author : Bjorn Dihle
language : en
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Haunted Inside Passage written by Bjorn Dihle and has been published by Graphic Arts Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A collection of twenty stories showcasing the supernatural legends and unsolved mysteries of Southeast Alaska, with a focus on the region between Yakutat and Petersburg, where the author has lived his entire life, writing, teaching, guiding, commercial fishing, and investigating ghost stories. Each chapter is rooted in Bjorn’s own adventures and will intertwine fascinating history, interviews, and his reflections. Bjorn’s writing, sometimes poignant and often wickedly funny, brings to mind Hunter S. Thompson and Patrick McManus. Chapters touch on legends such as Alexander Baranov, Soapy Smith, James Wickersham, and the Kóoshdaa Káa (Kushtaka) to lesser known but fascinating characters like “Naked” Joe Knowles and purported serial killer Ed Krause. From duplicitous if not downright diabolical humans to demons of the fjords and deep seas and cryptids of the forest, Bjorn presents a lively cross-section of the haunter and the haunted found in Alaska’s Inside Passage.
Journeys Through The Inside Passage
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Author : Joe Upton
language : en
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Release Date : 2008-03
Journeys Through The Inside Passage written by Joe Upton and has been published by Alaska Northwest Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03 with Transportation categories.
Writer and fisherman Joe Upton recounts the riveting stories of explorers of the past and seafarers of the present in JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE. His chronicle offers events vivid in their telling: the journey of widow Muriel Blanchet, who solo navigated a small vessel in the 1930s with her five children; the failed meeting of explorers Alexander Mackenzie and George Vancouver in 1793; countless sinkings; and tales from the author's own experiences plying this legendary waterway.
Soft City
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Author : Jonathan Raban
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Soft City written by Jonathan Raban and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
With an introduction by Iain Sinclair In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us. How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In Soft City, Jonathan Raban, one of our most acclaimed novelists and travel writers seeks to find out. First published in the 1970s, his account is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city, more relevant to today’s overcrowded planet than ever.
Inside Passage Walking Tours
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Author : Julianne Chase
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Inside Passage Walking Tours written by Julianne Chase and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Alaska categories.
For cruise ship passengers or anyone else who wants insider advice on what to see and do on a limited schedule, Inside Passage Walking Tours provides an intimate look at the four major ports and leads readers on a self-guided tour to discover each town. Complete with detailed maps and color photographs, this handy guidebook is also a perfect trip souvenir.
Bad Land
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Author : Jonathan Raban
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-09-19
Bad Land written by Jonathan Raban and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-19 with History categories.
Jonathan Raban takes you on an enthralling journey into the least populated and least known region in the United States, the Great Plains of Montana, and finds there the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the homesteaders whose dreams foundered there, and reaching through history to the present day, Bad Land uncovers the dangerous legacy of American innocence gone sour. 'Bad Land should be recognized as a blazing classic' – Sunday Telegraph
Foreign Land
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Author : Jonathan Raban
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-04-28
Foreign Land written by Jonathan Raban and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-28 with Fiction categories.
From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land and Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again. For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since the woman he loves is still back in Africa. Witty, charming and masterly crafted, Foreign Land is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption.