Passage to Juneau

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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
First US edition
AuthorJonathan Raban
PublisherPicador (UK)
Pantheon Books (US)
Publication date
1999
ISBN0-679-44262-6
917.98/2 21
LC ClassF851 .R33 1999

Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings is a 1999 travelogue by Jonathan Raban. Alongside an account of Raban's own trip by boat from Seattle to Juneau, the reader is presented with the voyage of Captain George Vancouver between 1792 and 1794 and his encounters with the seagoing natives living along the coast.

Sources[edit]

  • The New York Review of Books January 20, 2000 'Now Voyager' [1]
  • New York Times, November 7, 1999 'Staying Afloat' [2]
  • Powell.com Author interviews - Jonathan Raban [3]
  • San Francisco Chronicle November 7, 1999 [4]
  • Review: A Solitary Voyage by David P. Stern (27 July 2002) [5]
  • The Guardian, September 23, 2006, 'Rootless in Seattle, Aida Edemariam [6]