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Things become other things : a walking memoir / Craig Mod.
LIBRA DS812 .M63 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mod, Craig, author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walking--Japan.
- Walking.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Japan.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Travel photography.
- travel photography.
- Mod, Craig.
- Kii Peninsula (Japan)--Description and travel.
- Kii Peninsula (Japan).
- Japan--Description and travel.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Travel writing.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long solo walks. But in 2021, during the pandemic shutdown of Japan's borders, one particular walk around the Kumano KodM routes--the ancient pilgrimage paths of Japan's southern Kii Peninsula--took on an unexpectedly personal new significance. Mod found himself reflecting on his own childhood in a post-industrial American town, his experiences as an adoptee, his unlikely relocation to Japan at nineteen, and his relationship with one lost friend, whose life was tragically cut short after their paths diverged. For Mod, the walk became a tool to bear witness to a quiet grace visible only when "you're bored out of your skull and the miles left are long." Tracing a 300-mile-long journey, Things Become Other Things folds together history, literature, poetry, Shinto and Buddhist spirituality, and contemporary rural life in Japan via dozens of conversations with aging fishermen, multi-generational inn owners, farmers, and kissaten cafe "mamas." Along the way, Mod communes with mountain fauna, marvels over evidence of bears and boars, and hopscotches around leeches. He encounters whispering priests and foul-mouthed little kids who ask him, "Just what the heck are you, anyway?" Through sharp prose and his curious archive of photographs, he records evidence of floods and tsunamis, the disappearance of village life on the peninsula, and the capricious fecundity of nature."-- Amazon.com.
- ISBN:
- 9780593732540
- 0593732545
- OCLC:
- 1452502773
- Publisher Number:
- 90102007723
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