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    Soft City: Picador Classic

    Jonathan Raban

    One of the classics of travel writing, this is a prescient exploration of the individual’s relationship with urban living.

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    Bad Land

    Jonathan Raban

    Jonathan Raban's echnating history of the Great Plains of America, charting the untold story of the land and the ravages of the Great Depression.

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    Father and Son

    Jonathan Raban

    An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban.

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    Passage To Juneau

    Jonathan Raban

    An entrancing chronicle of the voyage from Seattle to the Alaskan capital from the late Anglo-American master of letters, Jonathan Raban.

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    Father and Son

    Jonathan Raban

    A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience…

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    Father and Son

    Jonathan Raban

    "A poignant memoir of recovery and reflection after a life-changing stroke, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"--

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    Foreign Land: A Novel

    Jonathan Raban

    Raban’s first novel, an engrossing account of what it can mean to return home

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    Bad Land

    Jonathan Raban

    Raban’s journey, made through empty landscaped that once brimmed with optimism, reveals what happened when American innocence begins to curdle. The tale, borne along by its superlative writing, is a…

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    My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front

    Jonathan Raban

    Bush’s ‘war on terror’ as experienced by an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest.

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    Surveillance

    Jonathan Raban

    In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. With precision and compassion, Raban captures a peculiar period in modern history.

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    Here There Nowhere: Paintings by Michael Brophy

    Jonathan Raban

    Michael Brophy has painted the Pacific Northwest landscape for over two decades, from sumptuously rendered panoramas of clearcuts and slag heaps to comic-book-scaled noir tableaus of the characters who reshaped…

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    Arabia: Through the Looking Glass

    Jonathan Raban

    ‘One of the most delightful travel books in thirty years’ New York Times

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    Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi

    Jonathan Raban

    As a child in England, Raban read Huckleberry Finn and dreamed of floating down the Mississippi. Old Glory offers the chronicle of this realization of his dream–achieved thirty years later–when…

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    Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

    Jonathan Raban

    Crossing the Atlantic to experience the metamorphosis of the foreigner into the American, Englishman Jonathan Raban sublets in New York City, sets up house in the Deep South, lives among…

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    Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

    Jonathan Raban

    With the same rigorous observation (natural and social). invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Critic’s Circle Award-winning Bad Land , Raban takes readers along…

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    Waxwings

    Jonathan Raban

    Moving, exquisitely written and hugely entertaining, Waxwings captures the landscape and life of contemporary America, confirming Jonathan Raban as one of our very finest writers

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    Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

    Jonathan Raban

    With the same rigorous observation (natural and social). invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Critic’s Circle Award-winning Bad Land , Raban takes readers along…

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    Coasting: A Private Voyage

    Jonathan Raban

    In this beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns a voyage along the serpentine coast of his native England into an occasion for meditations on his country…

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    Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

    Jonathan Raban

    With the same rigorous observation (natural and social). invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Critic’s Circle Award-winning Bad Land , Raban takes readers along…

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    Coasting

    Jonathan Raban

    In 1982 Jonathan Raban set out alone in a 30 foot ketch to sail around Britain. He had never before handled a boat at sea, but wanted to inspect the…

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    Old Glory

    Jonathan Raban

    Winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Award.

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    The Oxford Book of the Sea

    Jonathan Raban

    This is an anthology of writing about the sea from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It is extraordinarily varied, including fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, documentary accounts, and…

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    Old Glory: An American Voyage

    Jonathan Raban

    Winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Award.

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    Hunting Mr Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

    Jonathan Raban

    First published in 1990, Hunting Mister Heartbreak is a discovery of the many faces of America, from New York to Florida, from rural Alabama to Seattle.

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    Coasting

    Jonathan Raban

    In 1982 Jonathan Raban set out alone in a 30 foot ketch to sail around Britain. He had never before handled a boat at sea, but wanted to inspect the…

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    Arabia through the Looking Glass

    Jonathan Raban

    First published in 1979, Arabia is an exploration of the modern Middle East, from Earls Court and back again.

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    For Love or Money

    Jonathan Raban

    First published in 1987, Raban writes about reading and travelling, fleshing out London literary life in the “70s and "80s.

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    Bad Land: An American Romance

    Jonathan Raban

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bad Land recounts the exploits of the many homesteaders who came to the prairies of eastern Montana in 1909, drawn by the…

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    Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

    Jonathan Raban

    With the same rigorous observation (natural and social). invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Critic’s Circle Award-winning Bad Land , Raban takes readers along…

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    Passage To Juneau

    Jonathan Raban

    This is Raban at his best, which is saying a great deal’ Ian McEwan

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    Pacific Northwest Vol 3(HB)

    Raban Jonathan

    An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban.

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    Father and Son

    Jonathan Raban

    "A poignant memoir of recovery and reflection after a life-changing stroke, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"--

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    The New Granta Book of Travel

    Liz Jobey

    Take a journey in the company of some of the world’s finest authors in The New Granta Book of Travel, introduced by Jonathan Raban.

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    Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi

    Jonathan Raban

    The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American…

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    Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi

    Jonathan Raban

    The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American…

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    Coasting: A Private Journey

    Jonathan Raban

    Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In…

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    Bad Land: An American Romance

    Jonathan Raban

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bad Land recounts the exploits of the many homesteaders who came to the prairies of eastern Montana in 1909, drawn by the…

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    Bad Land: An American Romance

    Jonathan Raban

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bad Land recounts the exploits of the many homesteaders who came to the prairies of eastern Montana in 1909, drawn by the…

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    Life on the Mississippi: A Library of America Paperback Classic

    Mark Twain

    At once a romantic history of the mighty Mississippi River, an autobiographical account of Twain’s early steamboat days, and a storehouse of anecdotes and sketches, this stirring account of America’s…

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    Coasting: A Private Journey

    Jonathan Raban

    Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In…

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    Jonathan Raban’s Novel Surveillance and Its Criticism of Surveillance in the American Society After 9/11

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    Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Bayreuth (Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen /Amerikanistik), course: HS 9/11 and American Literature, language…

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    Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

    Alexander William Kinglake,Jonathan Raban

    Eothen, which means “news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his…

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    Information and Communications Technologies in Society: E-Living in a Digital Europe

    The book uses data from a range of European countries as well as comparisons with Asia and the USA in examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information…

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    Information and Communications Technologies in Society: E-Living in a Digital Europe

    The book uses data from a range of European countries as well as comparisons with Asia and the USA in examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information…

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    The Dialectic of Creativity

    Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with Marina Abramovic, Vivienne Westwood, David Hockney, Georg Baselitz, Bjoerk…

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