Hokkaido Highway Blues - Will Ferguson

Hokkaido Highway Blues

Hitchhiking Japan

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2003 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84195-288-8 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
'A very gifted writer' BILL BRYSON
Abridged edition

It had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both.

The resulting travelogue is one of the funniest and most illuminating books ever written about Japan. And, as Ferguson learns, it illustrates that to travel is better than to arrive.

Will Ferguson was born and raised in the former fur-trapping settlement of Fort Vermilion in the backwoods of northern Canada. Fortunately, he managed to escape, and he has since travelled throughout Latin America and East Asia. Indeed, he prides himself on having gotten utterly and hopelessly lost in more than a dozen exotic locales, including Ecuador, Peru, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Korea, and Japan. 'How I ever became a travel writer is beyond me,' he confesses. 'I have absolutely no sense of direction.' Ferguson has a BFA in screenwriting from York University, Toronto. His first three books were plucked from the slush pile: he is the author of the satirical bestseller Why I Hate Canadians, which was all but banned from export (though it can be ordered online at chapters.ca, he advises), and his other works include a nuts-and-bolts traveller's bible, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan, as well as a humorous exposé about his experience in a misguided drunken government youth program, entitled I Was a Teenage Katima-victim! He has also written an insightful and highly scientific political analysis: Bastards & Boneheads (it was a study of our leaders).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.6.2003
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 236 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
ISBN-10 1-84195-288-5 / 1841952885
ISBN-13 978-1-84195-288-8 / 9781841952888
Zustand Neuware
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