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The Traveling Tree
- Narrator
- Shogo Miyakita
- Publisher
- Octopus
- Publish Date
- 6 November 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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
Critics Review
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Translator Eli K.P. William renders Hoshino's playful but reverential prose into English for the first time... The Traveling Tree proves how boundless curiosity - whether for roaming wolves, Arctic glaciers or bush pilots - can breathe better, more honest, open-ended attention into the world we inhabit
The Japan Times
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Elegantly translated into English for the first time
Literary Review
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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
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Details
- Author
- Michio Hoshino, translated by Eli K. P. William
- Narrator
- Shogo Miyakita
- Duration
- 5 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9781856755948
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Octopus
- Genre
- Autobiography: writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Over half a million copies sold in JapanIn 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
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