Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Vintage Departures)
Description
The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss.
"A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World
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.
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.
Praise for Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Vintage Departures)
"A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World
"Endlessly suggestive.... Nobody now writing keeps a more provocative house than Jonathan Raban." —The New York Times Book Review
"A great book by the very best contempoary writer afloat." —The Oregonian
"Raban is a super-sensitive, all-seeing eye. He spots things we might otherwise miss; he calls up the apt metaphors that transform things into phenomenal. One of our most gifted observers." —Newsday
