Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
- ISBN-10
- 0307797260
- ISBN-13
- 9780307797261
- Series
- Passage to Juneau
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-06-22
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Jonathan Raban
Description
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 navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss.
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