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Jonathan Raban’s Followers (190)
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
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published
1999
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37 editions
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Bad Land: An American Romance
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published
1985
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28 editions
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
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published
1981
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37 editions
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Coasting: A Private Voyage
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published
1986
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18 editions
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
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published
1990
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27 editions
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Waxwings: A Novel
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published
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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published
2010
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11 editions
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Surveillance: A Novel
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published
2007
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17 editions
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Soft City
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published
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
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2011: Reading Plans | 52 | 322 | Oct 25, 2011 08:07PM | |
The Seasonal Read...:
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| The Seasonal Read...: Best of the Spring 2013 Challenge | 17 | 108 | Jun 01, 2013 06:53PM | |
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| The Book Vipers: Award Winner Challenge Book Lists | 46 | 100 | Oct 16, 2019 12:18PM | |
| The Book Vipers: * Last book(s) you acquired | 1293 | 510 | Jan 29, 2020 10:25AM | |
| Libri dal mondo: Montana | 2 | 45 | Oct 20, 2020 01:52AM | |
| Libri dal mondo: Alaska | 4 | 35 | Jan 06, 2022 01:05AM |
