Hitching rides with Buddha
Take a humorist from the Great White North -- one part Bob and Doug McKenzie, the other Bill Bryson -- feed him lots of sake, and set him loose hitchhiking his way through polite Japanese society. The result is one of the warmest and funniest travelogues you've read. It had never been done before. Not in four thousand 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. And, as Fe…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Hitching rides with Buddha / Will Ferguson.
Summary
Take a humorist from the Great White North -- one part Bob and Doug McKenzie, the other Bill Bryson -- feed him lots of sake, and set him loose hitchhiking his way through polite Japanese society. The result is one of the warmest and funniest travelogues you've read. It had never been done before. Not in four thousand 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. And, as Ferguson learns, it illustrates that to travel is better than to arrive. -- Product Description.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2005.
- Edition:1st American ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Canongate
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
Notes
Previously published under title: Hokkaido highway blues.
The Physical Object
- Description:410 pages : : maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1841957852, 9781841957852
- oclc:ocm70260821
- LC Classification:DS812
- Dewey Decimal:915.20449
Subjects
Writers
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
Les Antilles
Rorgo Fretellus de Nazareth et sa description de la Terre Sainte: histoire et édition du texte [latin]
Boeren, P.C., (Petrus Cornelis)
Les Antilles
Les Antilles
Les Antilles
Files & Downloads
-
Hitching Rides with Buddha -- (.epub)
EPUB · 2.5 MB · updated
Rate & Review