Passage to Juneau
A Sea and Its Meanings
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نقد و بررسی
Author Jonathan Rabin describes his passage by sailboat from Puget Sound to Alaska, following the same route taken by Captain George Vancouver aboard the DISCOVERY in 1792. Vancouver's job was to map the coastline and look for a water route deep into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. On this modern voyage, Rabin seeks to map the jagged edges of his psyche and find a way to resolve his failing marriage. On the whole, Captain Vancouver's voyage is the more interesting. Rabin reads in a weary voice and seems wholly taken up with the pain and loneliness of his emotional seascape. The listener comes away with a desire to see this same rugged coastline bathed in more literal and figurative sunshine. L.R.S. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
September 4, 2000
Raban's purring English accent, playful imitations and knowing intonations perfectly nuance this pared-down version of his acclaimed tale of sailing alone from Seattle to Juneau. His journey through a sea punctuated by the "skittish humor of whirlpools" and colored by "fifty shades of grey" is nicely paralleled with the same journey taken by others before him, including Captain Vancouver's own dour explorations in the 1790s. Throughout, Raban is an inventive reader, creating many voices for the characters that people his tale; his nasal whine for the sickly, uptight Vancouver is hilarious. This playfulness gently contrasts to his more thoughtful, meditative passages, which encompass Raban's awe of the landscape and considerations of his own life and the small communities that cling to the rocky edges of the Inside Passage from Washington to Alaska. Vintage trade paperback released in October.
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