Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

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.

Author: Jonathan Raban
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/07/2000
Series: Vintage Departures
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780679776147
Language: English