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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679776141
ISBN-13: 9780679776147
Nov 2000
Publisher: Pantheon Books
435 pages
Vintage Departures
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In this vivid tour of Alaska's Inside Passage, a Seattle-based British writer describes the natural and cultural history of the area, his personal relationship to the sea, and the colorful acquaintances he met along his solo exploration by sailboat of the region. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999.
| Details | | Series: | Vintage Departures |
| Size | | Length: | 435 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "He was walking the dock; a big lummox, yellow hair tied back in a ponytail with a red bandanna, bedroll strapped to his shoulders."
Industry Reviews
"No one describes the experience of navigating a small boat in a big sea better than Raban....This is more than a travel book--it is a unique amalgamation of travel, reminiscence, history, anthropology and literary criticism. [This book] is beautifully constructed, its chapters and sections dovetailing with precision, and it is written with exceptional clarity and excellence."
Taylor-Martin
"...[Raban's] clever account of an interesting trip suddenly turns deeply personal....[W]hat had been a good travel book becomes a journey of the soul."
Jones
"This is an extraordinary book, very revealing of Raban's character, of his relationships with America and with England, and of his love of boats; but also of a family break-down....PASSAGE TO JUNEAU is far more than a meditation on the sea and its meanings; it is also an unsparing self-examination, written with mordant humor and forensic ruthlessness."
Cartwright
"With grace, style and erudition, Mr. Raban stuffs the reader into his sailboat's tiny cabin and makes him first mate on a journey through two centuries of a region and a half century of the author's own life."
Harris
"PASSAGE TO JUNEAU is a remarkable book--and remarkably hard to define. Part travelogue, part history, part memoir, it is a work that, by its very structure, enacts the dialectical motion of a sea voyage. Like Melville, Raban has a bicameral mind--at once documentary and meditative--and a lust for whatever floats into view....PASSAGE TO JUNEAU is a work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor."
Bayard
"Raban gracefully weaves together first-person accounts of [George] Vancouver's voyage...and Native American tales with his own reflections on geography, exploration, and the effect of technology on our experience of the natural world....It is the confluence of the two--the public and the private--that makes the book unusually moving."
Foley
"Raban, whose 1996 book about eastern Montana, "Bad Land," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, covers and enormous territory here, not just physically but intellectually and emotionally.<BR>His company as a witty and perceptive narrator soothes any impatience with the length and pace of this trip, and his nimbleness with language and imagery rescue a subject in danger of becoming a self-consuming cliche."
San Francisco Chronicle - Sherry Simpson (11/07/1999)
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