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Jonathan Raban

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Jonathan Raban (born 14 June 1942, Hempton, Norfolk, England) is a British travel writer, critic, and novelist. [1]

38 relations: Arabia Through the Looking Glass, Bad Land: An American Romance, Barnes & Noble, Charles Dickens, Coasting (book), Evelyn Waugh, Falklands War, For Love & Money, Foreign Land (novel), Heinemann Award, Hempton, High Windows, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Loggernaut, London Review of Books, National Book Critics Circle Award, Novelist, Old Glory: An American Voyage, Our Mutual Friend, P. G. Wodehouse, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings, Philip Larkin, Put Out More Flags, Robert Lowell, Ronald Reagan, Royal Society of Literature, Seattle, Soft City, Summer Lightning, Surveillance (novel), The Guardian, The Stranger (newspaper), The Whitsun Weddings, Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Travel literature, Washington State Book Award, Waxwings (novel).

Arabia Through the Looking Glass

Arabia Through the Looking Glass is Jonathan Raban's first travel book, published in 1979, describing his travels in the Middle East, the Arab countries he visits and the people he meets along the way.

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Bad Land: An American Romance

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 early 20th century.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Coasting (book)

Coasting is a travel book by Jonathan Raban.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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For Love & Money

For Love & Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling, 1968 - 1987 is a book by Jonathan Raban.

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Foreign Land (novel)

Foreign Land (1985) is the first novel of the author Jonathan Raban.

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Heinemann Award

The W. H. Heinemann Award is an award established by William Heinemann who bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, given from 1945 to 2003.

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Hempton

Hempton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is south west of Fakenham, north west of Norwich and north east of London. The village straddles the A1065 between Fakenham and Swaffham. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport.

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High Windows

High Windows is a collection of poems by English poet Philip Larkin, and was published in 1974 by Faber and Faber Limited.

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Hunting Mister Heartbreak

Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America is a travelogue of Jonathan Raban's personal rediscovery of America following in the footsteps of European immigrants.

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Loggernaut

Loggernaut Reading Series is a reading series in Portland, Oregon founded in 2005.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British journal of literary essays.

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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Old Glory: An American Voyage

Old Glory is a travel book by Jonathan Raban.

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, also known as the Pacific Northwest Book Award (PNBA), is an annual award presented by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association to recognize "excellence in writing" from the American Pacific Northwest.

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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings

Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings is a 1999 travelogue by Jonathan Raban.

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Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.

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Put Out More Flags

Put Out More Flags, the sixth novel by Evelyn Waugh, was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1942.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Soft City

Soft City is the first book written by Jonathan Raban, and published by The Harvill Press in 1974.

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Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the United Kingdom on 19 July 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, London.

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Surveillance (novel)

Surveillance is a novel by Jonathan Raban.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Stranger (newspaper)

The Stranger is an alternative biweekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, U.S. It runs a blog known as Slog.

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The Whitsun Weddings

The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin.

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Thomas Cook Travel Book Award

The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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Washington State Book Award

The Washington State Book Awards is a literary awards program presented annually in recognition of notable books written by Washington authors in the previous year.

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Waxwings (novel)

Waxwings 2003 is the second novel by Jonathan Raban.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Raban

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