New York: Viking Press, 1985. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Quarter cream over gray paper-covered boards, with purple spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap ($16.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 352 pages, cream endpapers. A novel about a man who, after retiring from a colonial post in West Africa, returns to England, buys a small sailboat, and sets out alone to sea in a final bid for freedom and self-reinvention. Jonathan Raban (1942 2023) was a British novelist, travel writer, and critic whose works include "Hunting Mister Heartbreak," "Passage to Juneau," and "Waxwings." "Foreign Land" was his first novel and marked his transition from acclaimed travel writing to fiction.

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Title: Foreign Land (First American Edition)
Publisher: Viking (New York).
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0670807672
ISBN 13: 9780670807673
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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After forty years in Africa, George Grey returns to an England, a daughter, and friends who are to him absurd, and he sets out to sea on a disordered journey through his life and toward home

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After 40 years, George Grey is leaving his work in foreign countries and returning to live in retirement in England. He returns to a daughter who scares him, a house that haunts him, and a culture that befuddles him. It is only in purchasing a small boat that he recovers a sense of personal balance. Returning to the ocean provides the security that his native land and his compatriots seem to suck out of him. Raban's new novel is a kindly exploration of the psyche of an expatriate Englishman trying to adjust to post-empire Britain. The descriptions of people and places give a true sense of the ``new'' life George faces rather unwillingly. The reader will enjoy accompanying George on his voyages, both nautical and personal. Highly recommended. W. Keith McCoy, Plainfield P.L., N.J.
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