Traveling Tree

Over half a million copies sold in Japan

In this enduring classic, Michio Hoshino shares his reflections on the natural world, and our place within it.
Beautifully written, this book is a collection of Hoshino''s writing published at the peak of his artistic prowess as a writer and photographer, only one year before his career was tragically cut short at the age of 43 by a fatal bear attack in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

First published in Japanese, The Traveling Tree is a literary triumph, available in English for the first time.

''Hoshino''s prose sits somewhere between Henry David Thoreau''s matter-of-fact observations in Walden and Annie Dillard''s poetical musings in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.'' Asian Review of Books