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Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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 foundered th ...Show more
Coasting: A Private Journey by Jonathan Raban
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 the ...Show more
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook by Raban Jonathan
$54.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Charting a course through the Pacific Northwest, through American history and recent world events, "Driving Home" is a must for fans of Jonathan Raban, as well as the perfect introduction to anyone not yet familiar with his writing. For over thirty years now, Jonathan Raban has written about movement; a ...Show more
Father and Son by Jonathan Raban
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On 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 facility outside Seattle and resisting the ministrations of the nurses overseeing his recovery, Raban began to ...Show more
For Love And Money : Writing Reading Travelling 1968-1987 by Jonathan Raban
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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?'
My Holy War : Dispatches from the Home Front by Jonathan Raban
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Struck by memories of his own adolesecent atheism, Jonathan Raban felt he had some understanding of why young people suffering from cultural alienation and moral uncertainty might turn to a backward-looking version of Islam as one way to resist the upheavals of modernity. Yet this understanding was larg ...Show more
Old Glory - An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, han ...Show more
Passage to Juneau by RABAN JONATHAN
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures | Reading Level: General Adult
The author of the National Book Critic's Circle Award-winning "Bad Land" conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau, transversing a gulf of centuries and cultures, and offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation with an unsparing narrative of personal loss. A ...Show more
Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'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 TimesPassage to Juneau is an account of Raban's voyage from Seattle to the Alaskan capital by boat, and the devastating news that awaits him when ...Show more