Verlag: Vintage, 2008
ISBN 10: 0099506947 ISBN 13: 9780099506942
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Verlag: Chatto and Windus, 2007
ISBN 10: 0701181044 ISBN 13: 9780701181048
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Verlag: University of California Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0701181044 ISBN 13: 9780701181048
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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: University of California Press (edition 1), 2007
ISBN 10: 0520250532 ISBN 13: 9780520250536
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Verlag: University of California Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0520250532 ISBN 13: 9780520250536
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.
Verlag: Vintage Books USA, 2008
ISBN 10: 0099506947 ISBN 13: 9780099506942
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0099506947 ISBN 13: 9780099506942
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In this collection of essays Liza Dalby takes the 72 seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac as seeds, and grows them into a year's journal, entwining personal experience, natural phenomena, and ruminations on the cultural aesthetics of China, Japan, and California. Written from Dalby's perspective as an anthropologist and gardener, the essays explore how the Asian calendar has grounded her awareness of time and place. Drawing connections between philology and nature, memory and experience, they draw on her experiences over the years she spent in Japan where she first went to live at age 16. She also conducted fieldwork on a tiny island in the Inland sea, worked as the only non-Japanese geisha, and painted her teeth black to recreate the courtly fashions of the eleventh century. The essays also delve into memories of keeping a pet butterfly, roasting rice cakes with her children, watching whales, and pampering worms to make compost. In the manner of the Japanese personal poetic essay form, together they comprise 72 windows into a life lived between cultures, resulting in a dazzling and down-to-earth mosaic-like memoir. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.