Buy this book on-line Maraini, Fosco : MEETING WITH JAPANThe Viking Press, New York, 1959
DJ with small tears and chipping; Author Maraini spent many years in Japan as a teacher, wartime internee, and traveller. Translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher. Photogravures and color photos; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 467 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Maraini, Fosco : MEETING WITH JAPAN. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. MARAINI, FOSCO : Meeting with JapanViking Press,, New York, 1960
Translated from Italian by Eric Mosbacher. 467 pages, plates (some in color0, map endpapers, cloth, dust jacket frayed otherwise very good. From the publisher: "This magnificently imaginative and penetrating book offers a personal introduction to the Japanese today, their age-old culture, and their history. It is the work of a highly intelligent, richly informed, and observant Italian scholar, linguist, and photographer, who spent many years there as a teacher, as a wartime internee, and recently as a sympathetic traveler. Though presented in personal terms and partly in the form of a travelogue, it is cultural history on a very high level. " From the Wikipedia website: ""Fosco Maraini (Florence 1912, Florence 2004) was an italian ethnologist, photographer, film-maker, mountaineer, writer, poet and professor. Perhaps best known for his photographic work in Tibet and Japan, Maraini also photographed extensively in the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges of Central Asia, in Southeast Asia and in the south of his native Italy. He accompanied the noted Italian Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci on two expeditions to Tibet (1937 and 1948). He has authored dozens of books and articles (many of which have been translated into several languages) , and taught Japanese cultural history at the University of Florence. He has had numerous photographic exhibitions in Europe and Japan. Marainišs work in Tibet and on the Ainu people of Northern Japan is of the utmost importance as historical documentation of two lost cultures. " FR3-1; 467 pages, Very Good in Good dust jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MARAINI, FOSCO : Meeting with Japan. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, libri antichi, collectables, livres d'occasion and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |