"Driving Home" collects two decades of Raban’s essays -- travelogues and commentary that chart a course through American history, the Pacific Northwest, and current events. "A sterling collection... An incomparable travel writer, in this book Raban supplies myriad observations about his adopted home, but also on the larger American landscape, riffing on the West, urban architecture, national political trends, the dot-com economy, and most sublimely, about nature." -- The Seattle Times Raban is the award-winning author, most recently, of the novels "Surveillance" and "Waxwings." His nonfiction includes "Passage to Juneau" and "Bad Land," among other works. Born in Britain, the internationally-acclaimed writer has made Seattle his home for the past two decades.