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1	Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings more books like this by Jonathan Raban 'Raban is, for my money, one of the key writers of the past three decades - not only for his immense stylistic showmanship, but also for the way he has taken that amorphous genre call "travel writing" and utterly redefined its frontiers..."Passage to Juneau" is his finest achievement to date. Ostensibly an account of a voyage Raban took from his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bad Land: An American Romance more books like this by Jonathan Raban In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters and lives of the thousands of landless people who, seduced by the advertising of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Old Glory: An American Voyage more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Surveillance more books like this by Jonathan Raban In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become thoroughly obsessed with intelligence-gathering. With precision and compassion, Raban captures a rich variety of lives caught up in the fault lines that reach throughout society. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America more books like this by Jonathan Raban Crossing the Atlantic to experience the metamorphosis of the foreigner into the American, Englishman Jonathan Raban sublets in New York City, sets up house in the Deep South, lives among Seattle immigrants, and drifts off the Florida Keys. A lyrical, funny account of coming to America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Coasting more books like this by Jonathan Raban The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Soft city more books like this by Jonathan Raban Raban's documentary portrait of metropolitan life written as part thesis,part reportage and part autobiography. see all copies from $7.42! new only from $8.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Waxwings more books like this by Jonathan Raban Jonathan Raban's caustic novel takes place in post-Y2K Seattle, where Tom Janeway is caught in the trajectory of current events (WTO riots, Al Qaeda fears) and his own deteriorating life, which includes the departure of his wife and not one but two brushes with the law. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front more books like this by Jonathan Raban Ranging from Seattle to Cairo, from the high seas to the US presidential campaign, Raban brings a distinctive and often unexpected perspective to the issues facing post-September 11 America. What does the " war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Arabia, a Journey Through the Labyrinth more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Homesteading more books like this by Percy Wollaston, Jonathan Raban (Foreword by) A document of life on the plains of eastern Montana in the 1920s. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $30.00! \| first editions
12	Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi more books like this by Jonathan Raban As a child in England, Raban read "Huckleberry Finn" and dreamed of floating down the Mississippi. "Old Glory" offers the chronicle of this realization of his dream--achieved thirty years later--when he navigated the river, from Minneapolis to Morgan City, Louisiana, in a 16-foot motorboat. see all copies from $8.31! new only from $9.29! \| SVS
13	Foreign Land more books like this by Jonathan Raban 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Coasting: A Private Voyage more books like this by Jonathan Raban In this beautifully written book, the bestselling author of "Bad Land" turns a voyage along the serpentine coast of his native England into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. A "New York Times" Notable Book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Oxford Book of the Sea more books like this by Jonathan Raban (Editor) One of the earliest poems in the English language, "The Seafarer", is about the sea. Britain is a maritime culture and it is difficult to think of its history without bringing to mind such figures as Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh, and Nelson. The language itself is suffused with obsolete nautical terms (aloof, taken-aback, above board), and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Hunting mister Heartbreak more books like this by Jonathan Raban A story of self-discovery set against a journey across America. It follows the author as he moves from the social battlefield of Manhattan to rural Alabama, continually re-inventing his own character as he travels. By the author of "Old Glory" and "Arabia through a Looking Glass". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	Old Glory: America more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18	Old Glory more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Foreign land : a novel by Jonathan Raban George Grey has been abroad for 40 years. He comes home nursing a vision of an England that no longer exists. His native country appears to him cold - a shock to his system when compared to Africa. George decides to move to Cornwall where he buys a boat, the Calliope. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Bad Land more books like this by Jonathan Raban In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters and lives of the thousands of landless people who, seduced by the advertising of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.96! \| first editions
21 view cover	Passage to Juneau: A Sea and It's Meaning more books like this by Jonathan Raban (Read by) In this vivid tour of Alaska's Inside Passage, a Seattle-based British writer describes the natural and cultural history of the area, his personal relationship to the sea, and the colorful acquaintances he met along his solo exploration by sailboat of the region. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
22	For Love and Money: A Writing Life, 1969-1989 more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	Arabia more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.90!
24	Arabia through the looking glass more books like this by Jonathan Raban see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.35! \| first editions
25 view cover	For love & money : writing, reading, travelling, 1968-1987 more books like this by Jonathan Raban A selection of Jonathan Raban's essays, reportage, travel writings and literary criticism, linked with a narrative thread that attempts the question 'Why do you write?' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.03! \| first editions \| SVS

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