Passage to Juneau

A Sea and Its Meanings

Jonathan Raban

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Vintage Books USA
07 November 2000

Sailing; Travel & holiday guides; Travel writing

Series: Vintage Departures

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.

By: Jonathan Raban
Imprint: Vintage Books USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 374g
ISBN: 9780679776147
ISBN 10: 0679776141
Series: Vintage Departures
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 07 November 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor. -The Washington Post Book World Endlessly suggestive.... Nobody now writing keeps a more provocative house than Jonathan Raban. -The New York Times Book Review A great book by the very best contempoary writer afloat. -The Oregonian Raban is a super-sensitive, all-seeing eye. He spots things we might otherwise miss; he calls up the apt metaphors that transform things into phenomenal. One of our most gifted observers. -Newsday