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"The author has done his homework... The book benefits from his sharp eye and the charm of his writing." -Philadelphia Inquirer
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Given the choice, no one ever went to Sado, although the island off the west coast of Japan has considerable natural beauty. Instead, for a thousand years, Sada was a place of isolation and exile for the deposed, disgraced, or just plain distrusted--ex-emperors, aristocrats, poets, priests, and convicted criminals alike. But one year, one May, a British writer set out to circumambulate the island. The trek took him eight days, during which time he explored the truth about Sado's notorious gold mine, tracked down a vanishing badger cult, and visited the headquarters of the famed taiko Demon Drummers. This armchair-travel book describes what Angus Waycott saw and did on Sado and paints a vivid picture of one of Japan's most intriguing backwaters, now emerging from a long exile of its own.
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"The author has done his homework... The book benefits from his sharp eye and the charm of his writing." -Philadelphia Inquirer
Book Description
Given the choice, no one ever went to Sado, although the island off the west coast of Japan has considerable natural beauty. Instead, for a thousand years, Sada was a place of isolation and exile for the deposed, disgraced, or just plain distrusted--ex-emperors, aristocrats, poets, priests, and convicted criminals alike. But one year, one May, a British writer set out to circumambulate the island. The trek took him eight days, during which time he explored the truth about Sado's notorious gold mine, tracked down a vanishing badger cult, and visited the headquarters of the famed taiko Demon Drummers. This armchair-travel book describes what Angus Waycott saw and did on Sado and paints a vivid picture of one of Japan's most intriguing backwaters, now emerging from a long exile of its own.
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