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Soft City
Picador Classic
Häftad, 2017
119 kr
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Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today’s overcrowded planet than ever.With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and …
Coasting
Häftad, 2018
153 kr
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'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman RushdieCoasting round Britain single-handed in an …
Eothen
Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Av Alexander William Kinglake, Jonathan Raban
Häftad, 2019
156 kr
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It took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near eastern cities of Jerusalem, …
The Oxford Book of the Sea
Av Jonathan Raban, Jonathan Raban
Häftad, 2001
175 kr
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It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of writings which ponder its mystery.A powerful and …
Coasting
A Private Voyage
E-bok, 2011
193 kr
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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 …
Foreign Land
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
178 kr
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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 …
Old Glory
A Voyage Down the Mississippi
E-bok, 2011
215 kr
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The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river and the …
Hunting Mister Heartbreak
A Discovery of America
E-bok, 2011
219 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book "In an era of jet tourism, [Jonathan Raban] remains a traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson." --The New York Times Book Review In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote …
Passage to Juneau
A Sea and Its Meanings
E-bok, 2011
213 kr
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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 …
Bad Land
An American Romance
E-bok, 2011
224 kr
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Seduced by the government''s offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban''s stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader''s dream strips …
Old Glory
Häftad, 1995
266 kr
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A stunning success...Raban takes us floating through the heart of America...more successful than 99% of the books about America since De Tocqueville's Democracy in America' New York Times 'Mr Raban has a keen ear, but, for the river itself, he has to evince not only a keen eye but a capacity to use …
Arabia
Through the Looking Glass
Häftad, 1995
179 kr
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‘A wonderful, rushing, crowded, enlightening voyage . . . A book which, in its ingenious understanding, its acceptance of a very imperfect world, and its energetic and constant fascination with human variety, should do a great deal to dispel the easiest and therefore the most prolific paranoid …
Passage To Juneau
Häftad, 2000
153 kr
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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 …
Father and Son
A memoir about family, the past and mortality
Inbunden, 2023
245 kr
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This, Raban's final work, is a gorgeous achievement" …
Father and Son
A memoir about family, the past and mortality
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . This, Raban's final work, is a gorgeous achievement" – Ian McEwanOn 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body. Learning to use a wheelchair in a rehab …
Driving Home
An American Scrapbook
Häftad, 2012
275 kr
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Driving Home is a collection of Jonathan Raban's travel writing and essays, spanning two decades and charting its course through American history and world events. Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite …
Waxwings
A moving and funny tale of displacement and belonging in contemporary America
E-bok, 2017
155 kr
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Longlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize'A treasure' – The Guardian'A remarkable work' – Literary ReviewAt the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream.For Tom Janeway – a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with …
Bad Land
Häftad, 2023
123 kr
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Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana – the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States – to uncover the heart and soul of the country.Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the homesteaders whose dreams …
Passage To Juneau
Häftad, 2023
124 kr
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'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 Times Passage to Juneau is an account of Raban's voyage from Seattle to the Alaskan capital by boat, and the devastating news that awaits …
Waxwings
Häftad, 2026
160 kr
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Longlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize'A treasure' – The Guardian'A remarkable work' – Literary ReviewAt the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream.For Tom Janeway – a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with …
My Holy War
Dispatches from the Home Front
Häftad, 2012
134 kr
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What does America’s ‘war on terror’ and new era of religious and patriotic intensity look like to an Englishman living in Seattle?
Soft City
Picador Classic
E-bok, 2017
189 kr
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Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today’s overcrowded planet than ever.With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and …
Passage To Juneau
E-bok, 2019
211 kr
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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 …
Driving Home
An American Scrapbook
E-bok, 2017
137 kr
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Driving Home is a collection of Jonathan Raban's travel writing and essays, spanning two decades and charting its course through American history and world events. Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite …
