books by Jonathan Raban     books:     Jonathan Raban      Bad Land: An American Romance Jonathan Raban Vintage, 1997 A Local Habitation And A Name I'm a great admirer of Jonathan Raban, so don't expect a disinterested review here! But let me have a shot at reflecting on what many other reviewers, of all stripes, find lacking here. Raban is a very idiosyncratic writer, and Bad Land, like his other works, is a ...             Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi Jonathan Raban Vintage, 1998 A Wonderfully Written Book Cerebral, yet accessable, Jonathan Raban is hard to peg in terms of genre. A book such as Old Glory could be considered travel writing, but such easy classification would fall far short of the mark. He incorporates history, some incredible descriptive prose, and sparse ...             Coasting: A Private Voyage Jonathan Raban Vintage, 2003 An early memoir by one of our best contemporary writers Hearing Raban read an excerpt from this book at Seattle's Folklife Festival last year, I "took the bait". At nearby bookstore, I bought copy, read it on the plane-ride back home, and thoroughly enjoyed it. For years I've been hooked (sorry) on Raban's books, such as ...             Waxwings Jonathan Raban Vintage, 2004 Waxwings? Why waxwings? I see that most of Waxwing's reviewers were Seattleites. As an ex-Seattleite, I loved the nostalgia the book presented. But that ending? The (bird) waxwings devour all the berries off the bush outside the main character's window. No previous mention of waxwings ...             For Love & Money: A Writing Life 1969-1989 Jonathan Raban Harpercollins, 1989 The book reviews are the best part of this work This volume contains a mixture of different kinds of writing. It opens with an autobiographical essay on Raban's childhood. It contains fictional narratives of various kinds. It discusses the English writing scene at the time Raban was coming of age as a writer. It ...             The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History Sasquatch Books, 2002 An Amazingly Beautiful Book This is one of the finest art books I've ever bought, and believe me, I have a long shelf of them. The editor chose artists both famous and unknown, at least to me. Many are women! I have the book folded open on a table where I can see it as I walk by, and I change ...             My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front Jonathan Raban New York Review Books, 2005 Outside view A small but valuable and articulate series of essays on 9/11 and subsequent events and issues written from the vantage point of a British author living on the West Coast of the US. Raban builds upon insights into Arabic culture acquired for an earlier work to offer a ...             Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings Jonathan Raban Vintage, 2000 the inside passage I've read many of Mr Raban's books and loved them all but this is my favorite. This isn't just a "travel" book, it's the history of the beautiful Inside Passage. You really feel like you are on Mr Raban's boat as he travels from Seattle, where he lives, to Juneau. ...             Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America Jonathan Raban Harpercollins, 1991 A masterpiece Raban's four books written to date on America-Old Glory, Hunting Mr Heartbreak, Badlands and Passage to Juneau-are all elegant and entertaining meditations on America and what it is to be American. Although each book is very different, they all feature the same blend ...             Surveillance (Vintage) Jonathan Raban Vintage, 2008 "Notice of Demolition" Finally, a novel in which the protagonist checks Amazon reviews as part of her research. Lucy Bengstrom, a Seattle journalist interviewing a Holocaust survivor and wondering about the veracity of his best-selling memoir, thinks as she skims its nine hundred Amazon ...             Homesteading Percy Wollaston The Lyons Press, 1997 Tough times, tough land, and tough people In a simple, straightforward style Percy Wollaston relates a memoir of his youth and his family's attempt to wrest a livelihood by dryland farming on Montana's eastern plains in the 1920s & 1930s. Their experience was heartbreaking, but there was nothing pitiful about ...             Old Glory (Picador Books) Jonathan Raban MacMillan, 1998 Jonathan Raban is an English author who fell in love with the Mississippi River when he was a boy (he was reading HUCKLEBERRY FINN). Over the years he dreamed about drifting its length. In 1979, he flew to Minneapolis, bought a 16 foot outboard launch, and set off for New Orleans. He takes us with him every step of the way. "The book and the ...             Soft City Jonathan Raban Harvill Press, 1998 Lost City 'Soft City' is a thrilling, exhilarating read - a perfectly-formed,elegantly-conceived masterpiece of a book. It's still as fresh and apposite today,despite having been written three decades ago, when the author was only 30-ish. Then,as now,it was seen as an original, ...             Arabia, a Journey Through the Labyrinth Jonathan Raban Touchstone Books, 1991 Timetraveling Do you like travelogues? Put Raban on your list. He apparently is a student of the Mark Twain school of travelogue writing. I stumbled onto a copy at the local University which was culling its stacks with a book sale. What a find..I will read every Raban book. ...             Coasting: A Private Voyage Jonathan Raban Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988 Water, water everywhere! This book is about water, how it moves in open and closed places, how wind moves it and stirs it (it could almost be a book on hydraulics), how it had provided livelihood for many people in the British Isles. It is a book about Britain as a museum, a service culture ...          products you might be interested in search for books dispatches, heartbreak, homesteading, mississippi, northwest, surveillance      geepe.com    web we recommend Tough times, tough land, and tough people randomly chosen VHS: Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlingetti