Passage to Juneau

Passage to Juneau chronicles Jonathan Raban's solo voyage by small boat down the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau, intertwining sharp observations of the Pacific Northwest landscape and its indigenous history with explorations of Captain George Vancouver's 18th-century expedition and Raban's own introspections.

Praised for its exact prose and unaffected poetry, the book exemplifies Raban's hybrid style that mixes travelogue, memoir, historical anecdote, and literary criticism to examine human geography and displacement.