Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river, and it has been in continuous use for several thousand years. Its aboriginal past - still tantalisingly close to hand - puts the inside passaged on terms of close kinship with the ancient sea of the Phoenicians and the Greeks. This book is much more than a book about a sea voyage; it is about Jonathan Raban's journey home to his father who is dying; about his crumbling relationship with his wife and also about the historical journey of the maddening Vancouver in his search for the North West Passage.

Title - Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

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Author - Jonathan Raban

ISBN 13 - 9780330346283

Imprint - Picador

Publisher - Pan Macmillan

Date Published - 12/11/1999

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Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 153 x 234 x mm

Weight - 800 g

Languages - English