Travel Books

Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects (such as airplanes, boats, trains and other conveyances) between relatively distant geographical locations. The term "travel" originates from the Old French word travail. Travel writing is a genre that has, as its focus, accounts of real or imaginary places. The genre encompasses a number of styles that may range from the documentary to the evocative, from literary to journalistic, and from the humorous to the serious. Travel writing is often associated with tourism, and includes works of an ephemeral nature such as guide books and reviews, with the ...more

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Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir

Craig Mod (欧宝娱乐 Author)

Release date: May 06, 2025

A transformative 300-mile walk along Japan鈥檚 ancient pilgrimage routes and through depopulating villages inspires a heart-rending remembrance of a lon A transformative 300-mile walk along Japan鈥檚 ancient pilgrimage routes and through depopulating villages inspires a heart-rending remembrance of a long-lost friend, documented alongside remarkable photographs.

Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021, during the pandemic shutdown of Japan鈥檚 borders, one particular walk around the Kumano Kod艒 routes鈥攖he ancient pilgrimage paths of Japan鈥檚 southern Kii Peninsula鈥攖ook on an unexpectedly personal new significance. While passing the peninsula鈥檚 shrinking villages, Mod found himself reflecting on his own childhood in a post-industrial American town, his experiences as an adoptee, his unlikely relocation to Japan as a student at age nineteen, and his relationship with one lost friend, whose life was tragically cut short after their paths diverged. As the days passed, he considered why he has walked so rigorously and religiously during his twenty-five years as an immigrant in Japan, contemplating the power of walking itself. For Mod, solo walks are a tool to change the very structure of his mind, to better himself, and to bear witness to a quiet grace visible only when 鈥測ou鈥檙e bored out of your skull and the miles left are long.鈥�

Through the frame of a 300-mile-long pilgrimage walk, Things Become Other Things folds together history, literature, poetry, Shinto and Buddhist spirituality, and contemporary rural life in Japan via dozens of conversations with aging fishermen, multi-generational inn owners, farmers, and kissaten cafe 鈥渕amas.鈥� Along the way, Mod communes with mountain fauna, marvels over evidence of bears and boars, and hopscotches around leeches. He encounters whispering priests and foul-mouthed little kids who ask him "just what the heck are you, anyway?" Through sharp prose and his curious archive of photographs, he records evidence of floods and tsunamis, the disappearance of life on the peninsula, and the capricious fecundity of nature.

Things Become Other Things blends memoir and travel writing at their best, transporting readers to an otherwise inaccessible Japan, one only made visible through Mod鈥檚 unique bicultural lens. ...more
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Discover Japan鈥檚 Sounds A to Z with Tanuki & Fox by David Huerta

Discover Japan鈥檚 Sounds A to Z with Tanuki & Fox: Explore Festivals, Food & Culture through Playful Japanese Words!

David Huerta (欧宝娱乐 Author),

Julia Schigal (Illustrator)

Release date: Apr 18, 2025

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Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail

Joan M. Griffin (欧宝娱乐 Author)

Release date: Sep 27, 2023

"Lace up your hiking boots!" Win a signed edition of Force of Nature, equal parts gripping adventure tale, personal memoir, and vivid nature writing. ...more
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