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Nicolas Bouvier Anne Dickerson, translator |
THE JAPANESE CHRONICLES | ||
THE JAPANESE
CHRONICLES
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One of the most engaging and exquisitely written travel books in recent
years, this immensely readable compendium of Japanese etiquette, folklore,
history, and anecdotes provides a key to understanding the Japanese people,
their motivations, and their behavior.
“A superb guide, smoothly translated from the French, to the Japanese landscape and mind, and a delight for lovers of travel and fine writing.”
“A reverential and delicately nuanced portrait of a lesser-known Japan at odds … with its own contemporary incarnation.”
“Elegantly translated.… A distillation of one man's love affair with Japan, revealing plenty of study, plenty of hard work — but, above all, plenty of gritty experience.”
“Bouvier's distinguished accomplishments (prizewinning travel writing — Le PoissonScorpion — and years of experience as a globetrotting journalist photographer) have culminated here in a book that succeeds in transforming personal experiences into a series of epiphanies for the reader.”
“A fine example of the European approach to travel writing.” “Like other great literature, [Bouvier’s] Chronicles pulls the
reader into a timeless dimension where all is transformed and there is
no separation between the reader and the work.” |
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NICOLAS BOUVIER is one of Europe’s bestknown travel writers. His first book, L’Usage du Monde (1963) became the bible of a new generation of travel writers. Le Poisson-Scorpion (1982) won the Critics’ Prize. A “stalker of images,” Bouvier is also a book and newspaper photographer. He lives in Coligny, Switzerland.
ANNE DICKERSON has lived in France and Switzerland. She studied French literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Sorbonne. | ||