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1	Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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 $5.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bad Land: An American Romance more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist Jonathan Raban, an Englishman, explores the harrowing reality behind the dream of the American West. Using the accounts of homesteaders, he evokes the realities of their disappointments, exploding our idea of the West as a realm of stable, settled communities and revealing a much less wholesome landscape peopled by loners and sociopaths. This book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Surveillance more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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
5	Granta 102: The New Nature Writing more books like this by Jason Cowley (Editor), Kathleen Jamie, Jonathan Raban add to wishlist For as long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature--as we know it--is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation, and climate change are transforming the natural world into something unfamiliar. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. In this special issue ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.91! \| SVS
6	Alone Through the Roaring Forties more books like this by Vito Dumas, Jonathan Raban (Introduction by) add to wishlist Alone Through the Roaring Forties is the story of Vito Dumas's wartime voyage from Argentina eastward around the globe in the 31-foot canoe-sterned ketch Lehg II. By any measure, it was a remarkable, unprecedented voyage over what Dumas justly called "the impossible route" - south of the Cape of Good Hope, south of Australia, south of Cape Horn. ... see all copies from $29.88! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
7	Coasting: A Private Voyage more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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 $4.48! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Old Glory: An American Voyage more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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 $2.12! new only from $9.59! \| SVS
10	Waxwings more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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
11	The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History more books like this by Kitty Harmon (Editor), Jonathan Raban (Introduction by) add to wishlist Gathering works by Albert Bierstadt, Sydney Laurence, Emily Carr, and others, this beautiful book represents a continuous, robust, and evolving artistic view of the Pacific Northwest. Full color reproductions of 100+ paintings. see all copies from $4.40! new only from $13.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Passage to Juneau: A Sea and It's Meaning more books like this by Jonathan Raban (Read by) add to wishlist 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 $2.48! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Soft city more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist Raban's documentary portrait of metropolitan life written as part thesis,part reportage and part autobiography. see all copies from $2.82! new only from $9.17! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Foreign land : a novel by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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 $17.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Hunting mister Heartbreak more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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 $9.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	For Love and Money: A Writing Life, 1969-1989 more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
17	Arabia more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.66!
18 view cover	Coasting more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist 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 $9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Old Glory more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.24! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Soft City: A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Life more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist Documents the experience of carving one's own path through the tangle and sprawl of urban metropolitan life. This book recreates the city in its teeming, unknowable variety. Part fact, part fiction, it holds up a mirror to the modern city and finds there a stage for a unique personal drama. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $39.60! \| SVS
21	Arabia, a Journey Through the Labyrinth more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $76.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Here There Nowhere by Michael Brophy (Illustrator), Jonathan Raban, William L Lang add to wishlist Michael Brophy has painted the Pacific Northwest landscape for over two decades, from sumptuously rendered panoramas of clearcuts and slag heaps to comic-book-scaled noir tableaus of the characters who reshaped the region 150 years ago. This large-scale monograph brings 15 of his most historically expansive paintings to date together with writings ... see all copies from $7.79! new only from $18.10! \| SVS
23	For love & money : writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987 by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Old Glory: America more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
25	The society of the poem. - more books like this by Jonathan Raban add to wishlist see all copies from $8.39! new only from $72.33! \| first editions

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