Jonathan Raban

Broschiertes Buch

Oxford Book of the Sea

Beschreibung

This is an anthology of writing about the sea from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It is extraordinarily varied, including fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, documentary accounts, and oceanographic writing. Familiar names, such as Byron, Defoe, Melville, and Conrad are well represented, but there are many new names too.

Autor

Jonathan Raban was born in 1942, educated at Hull University, and was for a time a lecturer at UCW Aberystwyth and the University of East Anglia before becoming a full-time writer in 1969. His books include 'Soft City' (1973), 'Arabia Through the Looking Glass' (1979), 'Old Glory' (1981, Heinemann Award, RSL Thomas Cook Award), 'Foreign Land' (1985), 'Coasting' (1986), 'For Love and Money' (1987), and 'Hunting Mister Heartbreak' (1990, Thomas Cook Award). He has sailed alone round Britain and has spent much time afloat on the coastal seas of Europe. He is now living in Seattle, where he sails a Swedish ketch on the rim of the North Pacific.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Books of Prose
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780192801944
• ISBN-10: 0192801945
• Artikelnr.: 21714502