Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679442626 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I got lucky again" according to K. Parsons. Unlike several fine reviewers here at Amazon.com, I have not previously been exposed to the work of J Raban. As is often my style, I bought the book blind, being interested in the geographical setting of the story. I had half expected to immerse myself in a lengthy, technical and somewhat drowsy account of a sailing voyage conducted in the throes of a midlife crisis. I was very pleasantly surprised to find my preconceptions . "Excellent writing! Jonathan Raban is a real upper-echilon writer" according to Willi Prittie. Excellent writing! Jonathan Raban is a real upper-echilon writer and weaves an engrossing tale. I look forward to re-reading this on my upcoming sail up the inside passage. I always enjoy having works covering natural and human history for anywhere I go traveling as this increases the depth of understanding and appreciation for a new place. This work is not a guide or history per say, but many things are woven together to th. Too much of the author's personal life This was suggested because I was going on a cruise on the same passage and I was hoping to understand what it might be like. Well, I got some good info but I also got a lot of the writers opinions on various things and learned about the death of his father and, at the end, learned about his upcoming divorce. I did not really care about all the extraneous stuff and the guy has a high estimate of his own opinions.
Here flourished the canoe culture of the Northwest Indians, with their fantastic painted masks and complex iconography and their stories of malign submarine gods and monsters. And he is at all times eloquent." -- Richard FordFollowing the overland triumph of Bad Land--whose prizes included the National Book Critics Circle Award--Jonathan Raban goes to sea.The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep--an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races. The early explorers were quickly followed by fur traders, settlers, missionaries, anthropologists, fishermen, and tourists, each with their own designs on this intricate and haunted sea.When Jonathan Raban set out alone in his own boat to sail from his Seattle home to the Alaskan Panhandle, he wanted to decode the many riddles and meanings of the sea: in Indian art and mythology, in the jour
The voyage through the Inside Passage from Washington's Puget Sound to Alaska churns up memories and stirs up hidden emotions and Raban dwells on many, including the death of his father and his own role of Daddy to his young daughter, Julia, left behind in Seattle. British-born Jonathan Raban sets out on a passage from Seattle to Juneau in a small boat that is more a waterborne writing den, and as usual with the brilliant Raban, this journey becomes a vehicle for history and heart-stopping descriptions that will make readers want to hail him as one of the finest talents who's picked up a pen in the 20th century. More than just a personal trave