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Vote: | In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. |
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Vote: | Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things. |
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Vote: | Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. |
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Jonathan Raban (born 1942) is a British travel writer and novelist. Born in Norfolk, England, he has lived in Seattle, WA, USA since 1990.
Whilst primarily regarded as a travel writer, Raban's accounts often blend the story of a journey with rich discussion of the history of the land through which he travels.
Bibliography
* Arabia, 1979
* Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi, 1981
* Coasting: A Private Voyage, 1987
* Foreign Land, 1988
* God, Man and Mrs. Thatcher, 1989
* For Love and Money: A Writing Life, 1969-1989, 1990
* Soft City, 1991
* Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America, 1991
* The Oxford Book of the Sea, 1992
* Bad Land: An American Romance, 1996
* Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings, 1999
* Waxwings, 2003
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