Funny Water
Frank Kermode
- Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban
Picador, 435 pp, £16.99, November 1999, ISBN 0 330 34628 8
Jonathan Raban is afraid of the sea, saying it is not his element, which is probably why he spends so much time on it. He does not claim to be a world-class sailor, though he is obviously a competent one. One good reason for sailing is that, being a writer, he likes to write about having sailed. Sailing is guaranteed to provide alarms and achievements for his pen to celebrate.
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