A story of self discovery set against a journey across America. It follows the author as he moves from the social battlefield of Manhattan to rural Alabama, continually reinventing his own character as he travels. By the author of "Old Glory" and "Arabia through a Looking Glass".

Hunting Mister Heartbreak

JONATHAN RABAN

Travel

The Harvill Press

Liberty

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

347p paperback with pictorial cover, some pencil markings to endpaper, cover and edges a little yellowed, pages clean and unmarked, very good

Arabia Through the Looking Glass

Travel Writing

Fontana

Language:Chinese.ARABIA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (map)

Arabia Through the Looking Glass (Flamingo S.)

Flamingo

Soft City

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

HarperCollins Distribution Services

When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary, eastward journey around the world in 1966, many believed he wouldn’t return alive. But when the old man returned in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV nine months later, he had madehistory’s fastest circumnavigation.Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an international best-seller when it appeared in 1967.It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure.The Sailor’s Classics presents the best writing about the sea as observed from the perspective of a small boat under sail. The stories range from pensive cruises in sheltered waters to tales of endurance and high adventure and each one features an introduction from Jonathan Raban, whom The Guardian has called “the finest writer afloat since Conrad.”

Gipsy Moth Circles the World (The Sailor's Classics #1)

History

Sir Francis Chichester

Americas

McGraw=Hill

Gathers essays about a cyclone, Des Moines, Iowa, Beirut, the thirties, Essex, constellations, chickens, Lima, and Samoa

Granta 23, Spring 1988: Home

Václav Havel

JEANETTE WINTERSON

T.Coraghessan Boyle

History & Criticism

Granta Books

Articles discuss exile, train travel, South Africa, Beirut, and Colombia, and are accompanied by photographs

Granta 29: New World

Classics

Granta Publications Ltd.

For over thirty years, Goerge Grey has been a ship bunker in the west African nation of Montedor, a land of malaria and political upheaval. But now he's returning to England, to a life and world essentially foreign, and to the terra incognita of retirement. In the long days that follow it's almost impossible not to get lost in melancholy memories - all the more acute since the woman he loves is back in Africa - but with the help of a sailing boat and a burgeoning friendship with the quirkiest woman in town, the ache of loneliness begins to ease. 'Jonathan Raban's achievements in this novel are nothing short of awesome' Washington Post 'Raban has a wonderful gift . . . These characters seem to index an entire civilisation' Voice Literary Supplement

Foreign Land

Picador

ARABIA is the story of Jonathan Raban's magic carpet ride through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. Not only does it reveal the Arabs and their culture, it also introduces us to a series of memorable individuals.\nMuch of the book's strength is the author's gift for friendships. He brings us into markets and hotels to glamorous parties and seedy rooms, to a sheikh's fortress and the home of a Bedu family. He opens up the world of the rich and the poor and gives us the feel, the smells, the sounds, the very texture of Arabia.\n"Beautifully written, poignant, funny, ARABIA is more than travel book, it is a tale of the collision of cultures, observed at an historically crucial time."

Arabia through the looking glass

Pan Books, Ltd.

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