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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

By Jonathan , Raban

Book information

Publisher
Vintage;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN
9780307797261, 0307797260
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1118890 bytes)
Pages
448 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Adventure;Pacific (AKCAHINVORWA);TRAVEL;United States;West;Electronic books

Description

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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