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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLearning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
Bruce Feiler · 321 pages
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about Ameri
For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan
Sam Baldwin · 210 pages
A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan
Gertrude Adams Fisher · 486 pages
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
Pico Iyer · 337 pages
Sushi and Beyond: One Family's Remarkable Journey Through the Greatest Food Nation on Earth
Michael Booth
Japan
Lonely Planet, Chris Rowthorn, Ray Bartlett, Justin Ellis · 812 pages
Japan AI: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan
Aimee Major-Steinberger · 180 pages
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Basho Matsuo · 167 pages
Hokkaido Highway Blues. Hitchhiking Japan
Will Ferguson · 384 pages
Wrong About Japan
Peter Carey · 167 pages
The recipient of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel--and now gives us something entirely different.When famously shy Charley becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son but also entranced himself. Thus begins a journey, with a father sharing his twelve-year-old's exotic comic books, that ultimately le
Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
Matthew Amster-Burton · 264 pages
"Everyone knows how to live the good life in Paris, Provence, or Tuscany. Now, Matthew Amster-Burton makes you fall in love with Tokyo. Experience this exciting and misunderstood city through the eyes of three Americans living in a tiny Tokyo apartment. Follow 8-year-old Iris on a solo errand to the world's greatest supermarket, picnic on the bullet train, and eat a staggering array of great, inex
A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony
Hector Garcia Puigcerver · 160 pages
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
Robert Twigger · 320 pages
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
90-Day Geisha: My Time as a Tokyo Hostess
Chelsea Haywood · 308 pages
"Millionaires, surgeons, serial killers, CEOs: 'What are your hobbies?' Step into the surreal world of a Tokyo hostess club and gain an exclusive, underground pass through the eyes of author Chelsea Brennan as she attempts to understand a way of life unique to the Japanese, all the while experiencing six-hundred dollar dinners, kabuki theatre, Harajuku shopping sprees, and first-class trips to 'An
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Bill Bryson · 272 pages
Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journe
The Way of the World
Nicolas Bouvier · 309 pages
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr · 224 pages
The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins.
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck · 256 pages
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the
Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
Penelope Rowlands · 279 pages
Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays—more than half of which are here published for the first time—the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to writ
James Herriot's Yorkshire
James Herriot · 224 pages
A Guided Tour Through the Beloved Land of *All Creatures Great and Small*. Takes readers on a delightful walking tour of the land he brought to life in his memoirs. Glorious color photography is supplemented by Herriot's own irresistable descriptions.