English Author Jonathan Raban, 43, has earned a reputation as a diverting guide for armchair tourists. His best-known travel books are Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth (1979) and Old Glory (1981), a Huckleberry Finnish, updated account of a journey down the Mississippi. With much of the world left to explore and write about, Raban has elected to make a voyage of a different and distinctly perilous kind. Foreign Land is his first novel.
Its hero is George Grey, who at age 60 is being gently bumped from the last outpost of his expatriate career. The government of Montedor, a former...
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