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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $88, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXJPN96)		  
Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia  •  Mark Brazil
FIELD GUIDE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 520 PAGES
Featuring 234 superb color plates, Brazil's comprehensive guide includes Japan, Taiwan and the islands along with the adjacent areas of Asia from Kamchatka to Korea. (JPN332, $39.95)		   Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia
Snow Monkeys  •  Heather Angel
NATURAL HISTORY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 96 PAGES
Heather Angel unravels how these monkeys live in troops: showing them in different seasons bathing and drinking in the hot pool, grooming, feeding, youngsters playing with snowballs and heart-warming shots of newborns with their mothers. (JPN371, $16.95)		  
Thousand Cranes  •  Yasunari Kawabata  •  Edward G. Seidensticker
LITERATURE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 147 PAGES
This lovely novella, Kawabata's best known work, begins with a tea ceremony -- a spare, scripted, traditional ritual -- and goes on to consider the place of tradition in modern Japan. It's a story of love, grief, and redemption. Kawabata's prose is as economical as the tea ceremony itself, and very beautiful. This Vintage edition is illustrated with wonderful pen-and-ink drawings by Fumi Kobatsu. (JPN34, $13.95)		   Thousand Cranes
About This Life, Journeys on the Threshold of Memory  •  Barry Lopez
ANTHOLOGY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 273 PAGES
A collection of essays on far-flung travels -- both actual and internal -- by the wonderful writer and traveler. Lopez includes Galapagos, Hokkaido, Bonaire and Antarctica among the thoughtful essays. As in all his work, the book is a rare combination of fine writing, adventure, insight and personal reflection. (GEN42, $15.00)		   About This Life, Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Japan Map  •  Periplus Maps
2009 •  MAP
Handsome, accurate and regularly updated, this convenient map covers the island nation with insets of the major cities. It has a variety of scales, with the majority at 1:2,000,000. Two Sides. 20x38 inches. (JPN06, $8.95)		   Japan Map



Also Recommended

Culture Smart! Japan  •  Paul Norbury   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture, this is a helpful travel tool for visitors to Japan. (JPN269, $9.95)
 		  
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964  •  Ian Buruma   • HISTORY  •  A favorite writer with keen insight about Japan, Buruma offers an admirably succinct, dramatic history of Japan's transformation from feudal state to host of the 1964 Olympics, with a focus on World War II. (JPN139, $12.95)
 		  
Japanese Culture  •  Paul Varley   • HISTORY  •  Valery traces cultural trends from the emergence of Japanese civilization through the present age, touching on religion, gardens, tea ceremony, the visual arts, theatre, literature and cinema. (JPN84, $24.00)
 		  
In Praise of Shadows  •  Junichiro Tanizaki   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An earthy meditation on traditional Japanese art, architecture and design, this essay by the great Japanese novelist, first published in 1933, offers tremendous insight into Japanese aesthetics. Most illuminating. (JPN19, $16.00)
 		  
The Art and Culture of Japan  •  Nelly Delay   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Lavishly illustrated, this handy pocket encyclopedia introduces the art, architecture and culture of Japan. With 165 archival and modern illustrations and a section of original documents. (JPN51, $12.95)
 		  
The Inland Sea  •  Donald Richie   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Richie's masterpiece, more than a travel account, is a beautiful reflection on all things Japanese by one of its most acute observers. (JPN13, $16.95)
 		  
An Artist in the Floating World  •  Kazuo Ishiguro   • LITERATURE  •  His second novel, Ishiguro weaves a tale of an aging artist in postwar Japan. (JPN58, $14.00)
 		  
Japan, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Jeffrey Angles   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This geographically-organized anthology introduces both Japan and its best contemporary writers. (JPN187, $14.95)
 		  
Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches  •  Nobuyuki Yuasa  •  Basho Matsuo   • LITERATURE  •  These marvelous prose-and-poetry sketches by the famous poet wanderer Basho (1644-94) invoke the mysteries of the cosmos manifest in the Japanese landscape. With some of the most perfect 17-syllable haiku ever composed. (JPN91, $14.00)
 		  
Norwegian Wood  •  Haruki Murakami  •  Jay Rubin   • LITERATURE  •  A bestseller in Japan, this enthralling, erotic tale of a lonely college student in 1960's Tokyo put Murakami on the map as a master of modern literature. (JPN265, $15.95)
 		  
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, A Novel  •  David Mitchell   • LITERATURE  •  Mitchell sets this richly imagined historical novel in the world of the Dutch East Indies company and cloistered early 18th-century Japan, where -- to this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons -- comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk. (JPN415, $15.00)
 		  
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle  •  Haruki Murakami  •  Jay Rubin   • LITERATURE  •  Murakami's most ambitious novel to date deals with, among other things, the scars of nationalism. (JPN107, $16.95)
 		  
Cranes, A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis  •  Janice Hughes   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Hughes covers the behavior, including the remarkable dancing displays, history, habits, life and lore of the 15 species of cranes worlwide. (BRD75, $45.00)
 		  
The Lost Wolves of Japan  •  Brett L. Walker   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Drawing on Japanese history, literature, folklore and biology, Walker looks at the forces that caused the extinction of the wolves in Japan. (JPN215, $35.00)
 		  
Volcanoes, Crucibles of Change  •  Richard Fisher   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A complete primer for the volcano lover, this heavily illustrated book covers types of volcanoes and eruptions, worldwide distribution and the physics of their formation. (GEO02, $29.95)
 		  
Wild Asia, Spirit of a Continent  •  Mark Brazil  •  Art Wolfe   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Organized by bioregion, this lavishly illustrated survey covers plants, animals, habitats and landscapes from the Himalayas to India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East. (ASA33, $49.95)
 		  
Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Passerines: Tyrant Flycatchers to Buntings  •  Norman Arlott   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This Princeton Illustrated Checklist, spanning all of the Russian Arctic, Europe, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and the Middle East, features 80 color plates with range maps and succinct descriptions. (EUR276, $29.95)
 		  
 
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