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Coasting: A Private Voyage
From the national bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Bad Land comes "a lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's …
The Dialectic of Creativity
Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with Marina Abramovic, Vivienne Westwood, David …
Foreign Land
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land comes a quirky and insightful novel of what can happen when one can and does go home again."Raban's achievements in this …
Father and Son: A Memoir
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twinned to a powerful account of his father's experience in World …
The New Granta Book of Travel
Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James …
Old Glory: Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another …
Information and Communications Technologies in Society
There is a growing body of work examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at …
The Oxford Book of the Sea
It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the …
Father and Son
A beautiful, compelling memoir. ... Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional …
Bad Land: An American Romance
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. - "As good a …
Hunting Mister Heartbreak
A New York Times Notable Book "In an era of jet tourism, Jonathan Raban] remains a traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson." --The New York Times Book …