Description: The author of the National Book Critic's Circle Award-winning "Bad Land" conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau, transversing a gulf of centuries and cultures, and offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation with an unsparing narrative of personal loss. An ALA Notable Book Award Winner. Map.
Review Quotes: "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." --The Washington Post Book World
"Endlessly suggestive.... Nobody now writing keeps a more provocative house than Jonathan Raban." --The New York Times Book Review "A great book by the very best contempoary writer afloat." --The Oregonian "Raban is a super-sensitive, all-seeing eye. He spots things we might otherwise miss; he calls up the apt metaphors that transform things into phenomenal. One of our most gifted observers." --Newsday