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Jonathan Raban
Born
in The United Kingdom
June 14, 1942
Genre
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
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published
1999
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14 editions
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Bad Land: An American Romance
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published
1985
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18 editions
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Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
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published
1981
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16 editions
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Coasting: A Private Voyage
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published
1987
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14 editions
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
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published
1990
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15 editions
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Waxwings
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published
2003
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10 editions
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Surveillance
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published
2007
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12 editions
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Driving Home: An American Journey
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published
2010
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12 editions
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Arabia
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published
1979
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10 editions
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Soft City: A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Life
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published
1974
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12 editions
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“Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.”
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“We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”
― Soft City: A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Life
― Soft City: A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Life
“We have so separated ourselves, person from person and group from group, in the city, that we have made hatred a dreadfully easy emotion. It comes to us as lightly and insidiously as the symptoms of an unconsciously harboured disease.”
― Soft City: Picador Classic
― Soft City: Picador Classic
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