Driving home
Subtitle: an American journey
By: Jonathan Raban
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780307379917
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Travel; Knowledge; Description and travel; English Authors
Description: Spanning two decades, Driving home charts a course through the Pacific Northwest, American history, and current events as witnessed by "a super-sensitive, all-seeing eye." (Newsweek). Frank, witty, and provocative, Driving home is part essay collection, part diary--and irresistibly insightful about America's character, contradictions, and idiosyncrasies.
Notes: Originally published: London : Picador, 2010.
Table of contents: title: Readings; title: Driving home; title: Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi"; title: Philip Larkin; title: I'm heaven; title: Mississippi water; title: On the waterfront; title: Julia's city; title: Why travel?; title: The waves; title: Walden-on-Sea; title: Last call of the wild; title: Seagoing; title: Homesteading; title: Keeping a notebook; title: Julia and Hawaii; title: The turbulent deep; title: White warfare; title: The unsettling of Seattle; title: The last harpoon; title: Battleground of the eye; title: The strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst; title: "Gipsy moth" circles the world; title: Too close to nature?; title: A tragic grandeur; title: Surveillance society; title: September 11: the price we've paid; title: Guantánamo Bay; title: A postregional city; title: Indian country; title: The curse of the sublime; title: Good news in bad times; title: I'm for Obama; title: Going, going, gone; title: An Englishman in America; title: Second nature; title: Cyber city; title: An American in England; title: Cut, kill, dig, drill; title: ELection night 2008; title: The golden trumpet; title: Metronaturals; title: American pastoral; title: At the Tea Party.