Jonathan Raban's echnating history of the Great Plains of America, charting the untold story of the land and the ravages of the Great Depression.

In this beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns a voyage along the serpentine coast of his native England into an occasion for meditations on his country…

As a child in England, Raban read Huckleberry Finn and dreamed of floating down the Mississippi. Old Glory offers the chronicle of this realization of his dream–achieved thirty years later–when…

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Award.

Moving, exquisitely written and hugely entertaining, Waxwings captures the landscape and life of contemporary America, confirming Jonathan Raban as one of our very finest writers

Take a journey in the company of some of the world’s finest authors in The New Granta Book of Travel, introduced by Jonathan Raban.

The book uses data from a range of European countries as well as comparisons with Asia and the USA in examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information…