Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings - Hardcover

Raban, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679442626 ISBN 13: 9780679442622

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1999

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Book by Raban Jonathan

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The author describes his solo voyage from his Seattle home to the Alaska Panhandle. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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is searching and compassionate. . . . And he is at all times eloquent."
-- Richard Ford

Following 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. 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. The unhappy British ship Discovery, captained by George Vancouver, came through these open reaches and narrow chasms in 1792. 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 hi

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679442626
• ISBN 13: 9780679442622
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 435