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Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters and lives of the thousands of landless people ...Show more
Coasting by Jonathan Raban
24.95 NZD
32.00 (22% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
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 strange country where he lived. This book is part travel book, part autobiography and part novel.
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook by Raban Jonathan
49.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Charting a course through the Pacific Northwest, through American history and recent world events, "Driving Home" is a must for fans of Jonathan Raban, as well as the perfect introduction to anyone not yet familiar with his writing. For over thirty years now, Jonathan Raban has written about movement; a ...Show more
My Holy War : Dispatches from the Home Front by Jonathan Raban
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Struck by memories of his own adolesecent atheism, Jonathan Raban felt he had some understanding of why young people suffering from cultural alienation and moral uncertainty might turn to a backward-looking version of Islam as one way to resist the upheavals of modernity. Yet this understanding was larg ...Show more
Passage to Juneau - A Sea and Its Meaning by Jonathan Raban
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. The physical distance is 1,000 miles of difficult-and ...Show more
Surveillance by Jonathan Raban
33.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
The long-awaited follow up to Jonathan Raban's last, critically acclaimed novel, Waxwings. Lucy Bengstrom had always dreamed of living in Seattle. From her remote childhood home, it seemed an Oz – a city of possibilities and fantastic, distant pleasures. But now, in 2005, living alone with her eleven-ye ...Show more
Surveillance by Jonathan Raban
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In a brave new post-9/11 world jumpy Seattle bears little resemblance to the city Lucy Bengstrom dreamed of as a girl. Living alone with her eleven-year-old daughter Alida, she looks to her journalism to make sense of it all. Yet with Alida drifting into adolescence and the home she's built up for them ...Show more
Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
49.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The first of a series of three novels set in the Pacific North-West, Waxwings is a masterpiece. In Seattle at the turn of the millennium, two hopeful new immigrants are drawn to Seattle by their own different versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born Englishman most at home with ...Show more
Waxwings by Raban Jonathan
26.99 NZD
29.95 (9% off)
Category: General Fiction
At the turn of the millenium, two immigrants are drawn to the US by their own versions of the American Dream. But Tom is unjustly accused of a horrific crime and Chick has no safe place to lay his bed at night.
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