A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO JAPAN

After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both hauntin gly familiar and the strangest place on earth. Arguably the world's greatest living travel writer (Outside). He draws on readings, r eflections, and conversations with Japanese friends to illuminate an unknown place for newcomers, and to give longtime residents a l ook at their home through fresh eyes. A Beginner's Guide to Japan is a playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, inc isive gl...[Read more]