Topic: Jonathan Raban

Travel

San Francisco Chronicle - 90 days ago
0 . Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings, by John King (Heyday; 111 pages; $14.95 paperback).. . Driving Home: An American Journey, by...

'Driving Home,' by Jonathan Raban

San Francisco Chronicle - 145 days ago
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Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Obama's Inaugural Stealth; Guantánamo by Foot; the Sad Truth About Benjamin Button

The New York Observer - 1116 days ago
Jonathan Raban, a British novelist and travel writer surveying the political landscape of the United States from his adopted home of Seattle, wrote some of the sharpest commentary on the presidential election. He argues, convincingly, that Obama was able to get away ...

Spycams in Seattle

Spectator, The London - 1198 days ago
SURVEILLANCE by Jonathan Raban Picador, Five years on, and the 9/11 books begin to mount up: we've had Philip Roth doing it as historical allegory in The Plot Against America; John Updike doing it as a thriller in Terrorist; Jonathan ...

A very slippery book

Spectator, The London - 1221 days ago
A review of another biography of that tiresome poser, Lady Hester Stanhope, sent me back to Kinglake's Eothen and the account of the visit he paid the Queen of the Desert, who dwelt in tents (as he found she didn't ...

10 of the Greatest Travel Books of All Time

Suite 101 - 1308 days ago
com, Outside Magazine, and Conde Nast Traveler have all published such lists.. From National Geographic Traveler, "The contents page of this tour de force reads like a backpacker's fantasy-Bali, Tibet, Nepal, China, the Philippines, Burma, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Japan. From ...