Snow Search Japan

Author : First Last
Publisher : World Snowboard Guide Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780954801434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snow-Search Japan written by First Last and published by World Snowboard Guide Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the makers of the acclaimed World Snowboard Guide comes the first in a new series of in-depth guides; Snow-search Japan. Whilst Western resorts spend millions of Euros and Dollars on snowmaking equipment every season to try and maintain a consistent season, Japan utilises the one provided by Mother Nature to create the fluffiest, driest and most plentiful snow on earth and the perfect backdrop for snow sports. For the first time visitor, Japan can be an overwhelming and bewildering country to visit. The language, the food, the culture and customs may be beyond your comfort zone, However once savoured, are the very things which make your visit truly memorable. Combining independent and authoritative reviews on the major resorts, with a detailed travel and cultural guide to Japan, Snow-search Japan is a unique and indispensible book for any skier or snowboarder looking to visit this fascinating country. FEATURES 256 pages full in colour In-depth resort reviews and piste maps Hundreds of colour photographs Access town / city reviews Comprehensive travel guide Language and culture guide Directory listing of relative contact agencies and businesses Backcountry information Working and doing a season in Japan

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030783431X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spring Snow written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

Author : John Koster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596983299
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Snow written by John Koster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. intelligence agencies, or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery—until now. In Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor, author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, forever. Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double-agents and communist sympathizers—most notably, Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.

Author : T. R. Reid
Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9784770016805
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ski Japan! written by T. R. Reid and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bokushi Suzuki
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snow Country Tales written by Bokushi Suzuki and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Guterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151001002
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snow Falling on Cedars written by David Guterson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful tale of the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird. Courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, this is the epic tale of a young Japanese-American and the man on trial for killing the man she loves.

Author : Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429991208
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snow Empress written by Laura Joh Rowland and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Laura Joh Rowland's mystery series set in fuedal Japan featuring detective Sano Ichiro continues with The Snow Empress. Japan, 1699: On a moonlit night on the northern frontier island of Ezogashima, a woman is running through the forest when an arrow strikes her dead. Meanwhile, in the city of Edo, the young son of Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, vanishes during a moon-watching festival. When one of Sano's political rivals hints that the boy was kidnapped—and may be in Ezogashima—he and his wife, Reiko, begin a desperate journey to find their son...only to discover that the local ruler, Lord Matsumae, is holding the entire province hostage for another crime: The murder of his mistress. So Sano strikes a deal: He will solve the mistress's murder if Matsumae will free the hostages and return his son. Soon, however, Sano and Reiko find themselves caught up in a dangerous scheme that includes clan warfare, bitter jealousy, and murderous betrayal as they race to unravel the mystery of The Snow Empress.

Author : Mark Henshaw
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925095320
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snow Kimono written by Mark Henshaw and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and ACT Book of the Year Award. Paris: 1989. Recently retired Inspector of Police Auguste Jovert receives a letter from a woman who claims to be his daughter. Two days later, a stranger comes knocking on his door. Set in Paris and Japan, The Snow Kimono tells the stories of Inspector Jovert, former Professor of Law Tadashi Omura, and his one-time friend the writer Katsuo Ikeda. All three men have lied to themselves, and to each other. And these lies are about to catch up with them. A quarter of a century after the award-winning bestseller Out of the Line of Fire, Mark Henshaw returns with an intricate psychological thriller that is also an unforgettable meditation on love and loss, on memory and its deceptions, and the ties that bind us to others. Mark Henshaw has lived in France, Germany, Yugoslavia and the USA. He currently lives in Canberra. His first novel, Out of the Line of Fire (1988), won the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award and the NBC New Writers Award. It was one of the biggest selling Australian literary novels of the decade and has been re-released as a Text Classic. The Snow Kimono won the 2014 NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction and Mark Henshaw was the 2015 winner of the Copyright Agency’s Author Fellowship. ‘With agile intelligence, with boldness in what he has imagined and tight control over how it is developed, Henshaw has announced triumphantly that he is no longer a ghost on the Australian literary scene, but one of its most substantial talents.’ Australian ‘Gripping...Like a Japanese puzzle, prized for their infinite solutions and depth of revelation, each chapter builds on the one before, unfolding through levels of story to unpack deeper and deeper truths...Henshaw’s ability to combine such cultural and aesthetic diversity in his fiction is not only an example of what a period of dedicated study can do, but a marker of his ability as a writer.’ Guardian ‘Henshaw’s prose [is] luminous and crisp, like the snowy countryside of Japan or the barren lanes of Algiers...When I finished The Snow Kimono, I raised my head, vaguely surprised that I was at home, in familiar surrounds, and it was still daylight outside. I turned straight back to page one and began again.’ Saturday Paper ‘Henshaw’s effects are consistently magical...[He] has perfected a particular technique for the scenes set in Japan, one we might call leisurely lyricism.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘A confident, complex, ludic and engrossing performance that will make readers glad Henshaw is back...With agile intelligence, with boldness in what he has imagined and tight control over how it is developed, Henshaw has announced triumphantly that he is no longer a ghost on the Australian literary scene, but one of its most substantial talents.’ Weekend Australian ‘The writing is beautiful: pellucid and wonderfully visual, painting memorable landscape cameos. The reader is compliant, willingly engaged with a story that starts in medias res and branches in unexpected and seemingly unconnected yet complementary directions, ending with a twist that is hard to get one’s head around.’ Adelaide Advertiser ‘An exquisitely written puzzle.’ Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women’s Weekly ‘A triumph.’ Salty Popcorn ‘Henshaw doesn’t offer the easy satisfactions of much puzzle-literature, but the many turns and shifts make for a constantly engaging read...An interesting, engaging work...Fascinating.’ Complete Review

Author : Molly Vallor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004393897
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen written by Molly Vallor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Seeing Snow examines the life, thought, poetry, and garden design of influential Zen monk Musō Soseki.

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582431051
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Snow on Fuji written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not–knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabata's unerring vision of human psychology. First Snow on Fuji was originally published in Japan in 1958, ten years before Kawabata received the Nobel Prize. Kawabata selected the stories for this collection himself, and the result is a stunning assembly of disparate moods and genres. This new edition is the first to be published in English.