Passage To Juneau

By: Jonathan Raban

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Paperback | 6 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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448 Pages

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'A moving, complex mosaic of memory, history and adventure'–Sunday TelegraphFollowing his dusty travels for Bad Land–described as a 'blazing classic' and whose many prizes included the US National Book Critics Circle Award–Jonathan Raban returns to sea, sailing up the coast of Canada to Juneau in Alaska.'Most beautifully told, vivid and fresh with observation. It looks like a travel book, but it's much less expected and more troubling than that'–Spectator'Unlike other travel books this is the genuine article... it is a thrilling adventure'–The Times'This is an extraordinary book. The voyage itself is fascinating... his observations are of the highest order'–Daily Telegraph

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The author voyages in his own small boat northward from Seattle along the wild, romantic and dangerous coast of British Columbia to Alaska. To reach the remote communities of this coast the sea is the only highway and so he followed in the wake of such early explorers as the unimaginative and eccentric Captain Vancouver RN, who charted the coast diligently, but failed to understand anything of the Indian gods who resided in the sea, giving life and taking it away with indifference. All memories of these ancient certainties were swept away by the missionaries and adventurers that soon followed. In attempting to disentangle and find direction in the chaos of cultures that resulted, Raban is ever aware that he and all the people that he encounters are part of the maelstrom. An absorbing book. (Kirkus UK)

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