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Loading... Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan... Pen Rai Means Never Mind an American Housewife's Honest Love Affair with the Irrepressible People of Thailand, and
Learning To Bow - Inside The Heart Of Japan.
Also, a little heavier but very compelling:
Eastern Approaches, and
Kabloona.
I haven’t read them but the ... ... charm and momentum that Alan Booth brings to the table in both his efforts.
Another participant above considered Learning to Bow a good travel book. I'm not sure if it is to be compared to Kerr and Chadwick, since neither of them really travel much, per se. They are ex-pats at least ... ... discussions here are built for intrusion. Interlope!
Okay, then; I'll put on the hazmat suit and dredge the garage for Learning to Bow. You mention the book has a refreshing lack of condescension. Perhaps I haven't read the right vintage, it seems there is more "gee whiz" for Japan than ... ... I'm new to this type of social thing...but I get excited when people mention books I love. "Sumimasen".
re: Learning to Bow: yes, it really is that good. I’m so glad to see that this wonderful book still captures people’s interest, because I believe it has not been surpassed ... LyzzyBee:
Is Learning to Bow really that good? I got it used years ago, but somehow it made it's way to into a garage-box without snaring me. Can you compare it to Alan Booth's travel stuff at all?
Regarding River Town--it sounds like something my wife would be very excited with. Her ... >15 it is wonderful, isn't it. The only travel book I've read that's close to it recently, is Bruce Fielden's Learning to Bow, about Japan I'm reading Learning to Bow which is an excellent book really getting into the nitty gritty of Japanese culture. Highly recommended. It's a BookCrossing bookring but Other Half is going to read it too if he can get it in before the month is up. It just seems to go deeper into cultural stuff than ... ... her life wasn't intolerable. She was able to have moments of happiness, and to find her way out of her situation.
#234: Learning to Bow by Bruce Feiler
I read most of this book a few years ago (when I was 12, I think), but although I enjoyed it, I never got around to finishing it. I decided ... I remember a great book called Learning to Bow about an American (I believe) student adapting to the experience of living in Japan. You might want to check that out. I love memoirs of time spent in other cultures! Some favorites are
Learning to Bow -- Bemused English teacher Bruce Feiler in Japan, 1960s?
Kabloona -- French aristocrat Gontran de Poncins lives with Canadian Inuit, early 20th c
Eastern Approaches -- Intrepid Scot Fitzroy Maclean as ... ... Roads to Sata and Looking for the Lost, in which he tells about his travels on foot in rural Japan. And finally, there's Learning to Bow, about an American teacher in a Japanese junior-high school.
All of these books have a high "funny reactions of Japanese to foreigners" component.
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