Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

by Raban, Jonathan
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ISBN: 9780679776147
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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. The physical distance is 1,000 miles of difficult-and often treacherous-water, which Raban navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat.

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. Along the way, Raban offers captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Raban, Jonathan
  • ISBN: 9780679776147
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 448
  • Publication Year: 2000

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