John Freeman

NW Voices

Remembering Seattle Author
Jonathan Raban

HE HADN’T PREPARED me for the house, for how wildly inappropriate a dwelling it was for a man who was in a wheel-chair. Stacked like a tea-tray of sandwiches on a sopping wet hill in Queen Anne, it climbed higgledy-piggledy into a thicket of conifers, and somewhere, up there, among the shaggy, dripping green, was one of the best writers of geography to have ever lived in North America, Jonathan Raban. For the past dozen years he hadn’t left the …

Sep 26, 2023

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