Passage to Juneau A Sea and Its Meanings

Name: Passage to Juneau A Sea and Its Meanings
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ISBN: 9780679776147

ISBN-10: 0679776141

ISBN-13: 9780679776147

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Jonathan Raban

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With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. The physical distance is 1,000 miles of difficult-and often treacherous-water, which Raban navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers-- between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class. Along the way, Raban offers captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836