Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80
An expatriate Briton, he followed Huckleberry Finn’s Mississippi, sailed to Alaska and explored eastern Montana. But, he said, he was not a “travel writer.”
Source: nytimes.com
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An expatriate Briton, he followed Huckleberry Finn’s Mississippi, sailed to Alaska and explored eastern Montana. But, he said, he was not a “travel writer.”
In works combining candid memoir and travelogue, he wrote ‘about place’ and how people fit (or do not fit) in
Writer of travel books, novels and essays, whose Soft City was an early example of psychogeography