Trip To The Jersey Shore

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Hilair Belloc has a nice Wikipedia.
A prodigeous literary giant but shackled to a huge bias that kept me from reading him
back in the days when reading authors was an obligation.
My daughter when she was an academic wrote a paper on the cultural bias
writers, professors, archeologists bring to their interpretations of the past.
EG, if your cultural view of man is men before women, that is how you will see the Neanderthal.
And by extension any accessment of the present state of man.

Evidently, like Belloc in 'The cruise of the Nona', Raban takes us down side paths in '..Juneau' that are on his mind when writing his sailing book. These side paths are the plate and color of the feast befor our eyes. However, for me, the lens of the writer has to be crystal clear not one filtered through rose colored glasses.
Maybe Raban has this radical CLEAR VIEW, sanity. Hope so.

That's all I'm allowed to say here.