Passage To Juneau: A Sea And Its Meanings
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
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
