"...'Passage to Juneau' is narrative non-fiction of the highest order, as Raban brings the past spectacularly alive, and renders the present in a prose of sustained brilliance and humour. Exhilarating, panoramic, full of ideas, natural history and mordant social observation, this journey into the heart of wild North America turns out to be a profound exploration of the tumultuous wilderness of the human heart." --BOOK JACKET