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Jonathan Raban
Born
in The United Kingdom
June 14, 1942
Died
January 17, 2023
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Vintage Departures)
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1999
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37 editions
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Bad Land: An American Romance (Vintage Departures)
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1985
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28 editions
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
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1981
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37 editions
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Coasting: A Private Voyage (Vintage Departures)
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1986
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18 editions
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
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1990
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27 editions
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Waxwings: A Novel
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2003
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12 editions
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Arabia
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published
1979
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22 editions
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Driving Home: An American Journey
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2010
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11 editions
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Surveillance: A Novel
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2007
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16 editions
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Soft City
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1974
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22 editions
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“Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.”
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“We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”
― Soft City
― Soft City
“I loved the sense of being so close to the city, yet so far out on this magnificently eventful sea, with its wild creatures and mazy channels. I thought, if I lived in Seattle, I’d keep a boat of my own, and sail it to where the tide ran at sixteen knots at springs, and where there were whirlpools ten feet deep. I’d live on a sane frontier between nature and civilization, with one foot in the water, the other in a metropolis of restaurants and bookstores. I’d read and write in the mornings, and run away to sea in the afternoons.”
― Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
― Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
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