Coasting: A Private Voyage

7 best books like Coasting: A Private Voyage (Jonathan Raban): Cities of the Plain, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, In Patagonia, Arabian Sands, Time After Time, Andalus: Unlocking The Secrets Of Moorish Spain

Cities of the Plain

Author	Cormac McCarthy
ISBN	0679747192

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Author	Dava Sobel
ISBN	0802714625

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon...

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Author	Kapka Kassabova
ISBN	1555977863

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...

In Patagonia

Author	Bruce Chatwin
ISBN	0142437190

An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for...

Arabian Sands

Author	Wilfred Thesiger
ISBN	0140095144

"Arabian Sands" is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the...

Time After Time

Author	Lisa Grunwald
ISBN	0812993438

A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond, in the spirit of The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold...

Andalus: Unlocking The Secrets Of Moorish Spain

Author	Jason Webster
ISBN	0552771244

As Islam and the West prepare to clash once again, Jason Webster embarks on a quest to discover Spain's hidden Moorish legacy and lift the lid on a country once forged by both Muslims and Christians. He meets Zine, a young illegal immigrant from Morocco, a twenty-first century Moor, lured over with the...