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On the Narrow Road: Journey Into a Lost Japan

On the Narrow Road: Journey Into a Lost Japan - Paperback

by Lesley Downer
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lesley DownerPublish date:2013-10-05Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781476766881ISBN-10:1476766886UPC:9781476766881Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asia, Asian, AfricanBook Topic:Japan, JapaneseSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCWXH2HSBP
Following the eight-hundred-mile trek of Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, this journey into a lost Japan explores the possibilities of an older, simpler way of life that still exists over three hundred years later.

In 1689, acclaimed Japanese poet Matsuo Basho set out on his last and longest journey to explore the remote northern provinces of his country. In a famous work of Japanese literature, Basho shares an account of his experience that is rich in strange, surreal, and comic encounters along the road.

Three hundred years later, inspired by Basho's writing and his appreciation of Japan, Lesley Downer sets off on the same journey the famous poet took before her.

As she walks, Downer encounters hitchhiking hermit priests, meets people who had never seen a Westerner, and dines on flowers and sauteed grasshoppers, leading her to discover a piece of Japanese culture that many believed had vanished centuries ago.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781476766881ISBN-10:1476766886UPC:9781476766881Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asia, Asian, AfricanBook Topic:Japan, JapaneseSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCWXH2HSBP
Lesley Downer is an author, journalist, and historian. After finding herself in Japan, nearly by accident, she spent some fifteen years living there on and off and has written many books, both non-fiction and fiction, about it. Downer has traveled all over the world as a journalist and served as the historical consultant for Northern Baller's spectacular 2020 ballet, Geisha. Currently, she is a visiting lecturer at City University in London, where she teaches on the MA program in Creative Writing.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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