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Coasting

Coasting( )
Author: Raban, Jonathan
ISBN:978-1-78060-138-0
Publication Date:Sep 2018
Publisher:Eland Publishing Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $29.99
Book Description:

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman

'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian

'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman Rushdie

Coasting round Britain single-handed in an antique two-masted sailing boat, Jonathan Raban conducts a masterly exploration of England and the English at the time of Margaret Thatcher and the...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Sailing
Travel / Europe / Great Britain
Book Weight:0.32 Kilograms
Author Biography
Raban, Jonathan (Author)
Jonathan Raban was an award-winning travel writer, novelist, and critic. He was born in, Norfolk, England on June 14, 1942. He studied English at the University of Hull. He went on to lecture at Aberystwyth University. Then he taught in the creative writing department at the University of East Anglia.

His early writing was done while on vacation. He wrote fiction and journalism. In 1969, he moved to London and became a freelance writer and journalist, writing book reviews and literary criticism. He felt inspired by his friend, Robert Lowell. Who turned some of his own life experiences into art.

Raban's travel books included Arabia: Through the Looking Glass (1979); Old Glory (1981); Coasting (1986); Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1991); Bad Land: An American Romance (1996); Passage to Juneau (1999); and Driving Home: An American Journey (2011). He wrote three novels, Foreign Land (1985), Waxwings (2003), and Surveillance (2006).

He won many awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and others.

Jonathan Raban died on January 17, 2023, in Seattle, Washington, of complications from a stroke, which he had in 2011. He was 80.

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