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At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream. For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English intellectual most at home with his books - it's the family he thought he'd never have. For Chick - an illegal alien newly escaped from a cargo container - it's the land of plenty he imagined back in China. But as the stock market hits a new high, anti-globalist riots break out in t...

Reissued with a new introduction from Robert Macfarlane, Passage to Juneau is the story of Jonathan Raban's voyage by sea from Seattle to Juneau, and a history of the same voyage taken by Captain George Vancouver.

Jonathan Raban's echnating history of the Great Plains of America, charting the untold story of the land and the ravages of the Great Depression.

An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban.

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Raban's journey, made through empty landscaped that once brimmed with optimism, reveals what happened when American innocence begins to curdle. The tale, borne along by its superlative writing, is a riveting one' Observer

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

First published in 1979, Arabia is an exploration of the modern Middle East, from Earls Court and back again.

A voyage round Britain in a two-masted sailing boat, The Gosfield Maid. First published in 1986.

TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues

TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues

When I finally arrived in London to stay, I felt twice life size. To be an immigrant is to play one's first and key role in the drama of city life. You are part of a mythology. In Soft City Jonathan Raban arrives in 1970s London and attempts to plot his course through the urban labyrinth. How is it, he asks, that the city - noisy, jostling, overwhelming - leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In the city we can live deliberately, we c...

This is an anthology of writing about the sea from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It is extraordinarily varied, including fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, documentary accounts, and oceanographic writing. Familiar names, such as Byron, Defoe, Melville, and Conrad are well represented, but there are many new names too.

One of the most delightful travel books in thirty years' New York Times