Books with author Jonathan Raban

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 often treacherous-water, which Raban navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat.But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers-- between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class. Along the way, Raban offers captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss.

The only bright spot in Amanda Jane Ash's life is her grandfather, Poppa Henry, and the many stories of a land called Penthya that he always makes sure to entertain her with whenever he swings by her house to say hello. But, after a great tragedy, Ash comes to realize that what she took as fantasy may actually be true. Penthya may be as firm a reality as Earth, her grandfather may have once visited that land, and creatures from there may be after her and her family. Ash will have to set her fears aside, and figure out who she really is, in order to protect those she loves.

Now available as a separate book to Welcome To Being Human (All-In-One Edition).Imagine a story written for adults, but told through 3 separate children’s stories. One bedtime story for parents to read to a child. One story for a child learning to read. One story for children to read to parents.This is just what is included in the Children’s Edition of Welcome to Being Human – the highly acclaimed book that has gripped adults young and old alike.How many times have you heard, “Life doesn’t come with an instruction book?”But what if it did? And what if you wrote that instruction book before arriving on Earth so that one day, in your human form, you would find it and be able to look upon your life with an entirely different perspective?Ever since humans arrived on Earth, they have – for better or worse – bounced around the planet without any sense of direction. It would be almost comical if it wasn’t reality. I mean, how many times have you asked a question and heard an answer like, “I don’t know why, but that is what it says?” Or even better... “That’s just the way it is.” After all, the greatest minds on planet Earth have only a small understanding of something much, much greater than can be explained through science, math, and history.This is why Welcome to Being Human will find the rhythm to your heart. For the first time, one book answers the great questions about life that have gone unanswered for so long! It is a story humorously written by you, for you, to help you remember all that’s been forgotten... an instruction book to being human.Welcome to being human!NOTE: To preserve the images and layout, this book is a FIXED WIDTH ebook.