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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9780375725944
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9780330445948
Struck by memories of his own adolsecent 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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:193
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9780330346290
'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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9781565113909
Acclaimed travel writer Jonathan Raban invites us aboard his boat, a floating cottage cluttered with books, curling manuscripts, and dead ballpoint pens. He's about to sail alone from Seattle to the Alaskan Panhandle...more details Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9780330346283
The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river...more details Format:Hardback
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9781860461071
Jonathan Raban's vivid, often funny portrait of metropolitan life is part reportage, part incisive thesis, part intimate autobiography, and a much-quoted classic of the literature of the city. In an age when the big city has fewer friends than ever...more details Format:Paperback
In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9781400033652
In the not-too-distant future, no one trusts anyone and everyone is watching everybody else. America is obsessed with information and under siege from an insidious enemy: paranoia. National identify cards are mandatory...more details Format:Paperback Pages:257
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9780375422447
In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. The government's scrutiny is omnipresent...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:257
In a brave new post-9/11 world, jumpy Seattle bears little resemblance to the city Lucy Bengstrom dreamed of as a girl. Living alone with her eleven-year-old daughter Alida...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Jonathan Raban
ISBN:9780330443609
Lucy Bengstrom had always dreamed of living in Seattle. From her remote childhood home, it seemed an Oz - a city of possibilities and fantastic...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
In the not-too-distant future, no one trusts anyone and everyone is watching everybody else. America is obsessed with information and under siege from an insidious enemy: paranoia. National identify cards are mandatory...more details Format:Hardback
At the turn of the millenium, two immigrants are drawn to the US by their own versions of the American Dream. But Tom is unjustly accused of a horrific crime and Chick has no safe place to lay his bed at night....more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
The first of a series of three novels set in the Pacific North-West, Waxwings is a masterpiece In Seattle at the turn of the millennium, two hopeful new immigrants are drawn to Seattle by their own different versions of the American Dream...more details Format:Hardback Pages:300
The striking landscape of the Pacific Northwest has inspired painters to put brush to canvas ever since the first European explorers sailed into local waters. A continuous...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Michael Brophy;William L Raban JonathanLang
ISBN:9780870712951
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:49