novelist. Jonathan Raban was born on 14 June 1942 in Norfolk. He was the son of Monica Raban (née Sandison) and the Rev Canon J. Peter C.P. Raban, whom he...
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Araban Raban of Helmstatt (born 1362), German bishop Jonathan Raban (1942-2023), British travel writer and novelist Ze'ev Raban, Israeli artist Raban Adelmann...
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it was hubris and that is what caused the tragedy of his demise." Jonathan Raban has written that The meaning of Crowhurst's voyage has altered greatly...
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a 2023 memoir by writer Jonathan Raban, published by Knopf, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. The memoir details Raban's 2011 stroke as well as his...
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book by Jonathan Raban. It has received a positive review by Beryl Bainbridge. Written as a travelogue, Coasting describes Jonathan Raban's single-handed...
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Old Glory is a travel book by Jonathan Raban. It is the winner of The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award...
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constantly getting into street fights as a teenager. The British scholar Jonathan Raban wrote that he had a "low IQ" but that he was an avid reader who especially...
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Bad Land: An American Romance is a travelogue of Jonathan Raban's research, over a two-year period, into the settlement of southeastern Montana in the...
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intricately carved frames and stained-glass windows. British writer Jonathan Raban visited in the 1970s and described the city as fortress-like, its architecture...
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Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings is a 1999 travelogue by Jonathan Raban. Alongside an account of Raban's own trip by boat from Seattle to Juneau, the reader...
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