Jonathan Raban
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. • "As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." —The New York Times Book Review
In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad...
In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad...
4) Waxwings
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Set in Seattle at the turn of the millennium, when the high-tech Gold Rush threatens to overwhelm the actual world with its myriad virtual alternatives, two immigrants are drawn here by more traditional versions of the American Dream.
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Partez à la découverte des surprenants paysages de l'Ouest américain
Dans ce court tableau, Jonathan Raban nous entraîne des profondes forêts du Pacifique à la vaste plaine du fleuve Columbia, à la recherche de ce que ces immenses paysages révèlent du rapport de l'homme à la nature.
Lui, l'écrivain bercé par son enfance dans la douce campage anglaise, est frappé par le rapport qu'entretiennent les Américains avec la nature. « En dépit...
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Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he's sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage - which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982 - into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home.
Whether he's chatting...