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The book follows Will Ferguson as he hitchhikes 1,800 miles north through Japan following the Cherry Blossom Front (Sakura Zensen). The arrival of the blossom is a national event in Japan, eagerly tracked on television bulletins, and besides marking the end of winter and the start of the business cycle it facilitates a burst of heavy drinking disguised as a communal meditation on transience. Surveying the country from the not quite private, not quite public, position of the passenger seat, Ferguson sees the Japan not written about in guide books, but gets to the heart of this intriguing and contradictory country. This is a laugh out loud, warm-hearted account with a generous helping of satire.
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Hokkaido Highway Blues, Will Ferguson
- Language
- Released
- 2000
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- Title
- Hokkaido Highway Blues
- Subtitle
- Hitchhiking Japan
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Will Ferguson
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 433
- ISBN10
- 0862419964
- ISBN13
- 9780862419967
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Humor, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Biographies, Japan, Asia, Canada, Travelling, Canadian Literature, Japanese
- Description
- The book follows Will Ferguson as he hitchhikes 1,800 miles north through Japan following the Cherry Blossom Front (Sakura Zensen). The arrival of the blossom is a national event in Japan, eagerly tracked on television bulletins, and besides marking the end of winter and the start of the business cycle it facilitates a burst of heavy drinking disguised as a communal meditation on transience. Surveying the country from the not quite private, not quite public, position of the passenger seat, Ferguson sees the Japan not written about in guide books, but gets to the heart of this intriguing and contradictory country. This is a laugh out loud, warm-hearted account with a generous helping of satire.