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From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, is the enmity between these three "tiger" nations, and what prevents them from making peace. Currently China's economic power continues to grow, Japan is becoming more militaristic, and Korea struggles to reconcile its westernized south with the dictatorial Communist north. Booth, long fascinated with the region, travels by car, ferry, train, and foot, experiencing the people and culture of these nations up close. No matter where he goes, the burden of history, and the memory of past atrocities, continues to overshadow present relationships. Ultimately, Booth seeks a way forward for these closely intertwined, neighboring nations.An enlightening, entertaining and sometimes sobering journey through China, Japan, and Korea, Three Tigers, One Mountain is an intimate and in-depth look at some of the world's most powerful and important countries.
About the Author
Michael Booth is an award winning English author and journalist.He has written seven books: - 'Just As Well I'm Leaving - To the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen', which was shortlisted for an Irish Times first time author award; - 'Sacré Cordon Bleu', a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. - 'Sushi and Beyond', which won a Guild of Food Writers award and was adapted for television. - 'Eat, Pray, Eat', which was shortlisted for a British Press Award. - 'The Almost Nearly Perfect People - Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia,' winner of the biennial Guild of Travel Writer's Best Narrative Travel Book (2016) .- 'The Meaning of Rice', shortlisted for Guild of Food Writers', Fortnum and Mason's, and André Simon food writing awards (2017) .- 'Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan'. (2020) .He is a broadcaster and public speaker, and writes regularly for a variety of newspapers and magazines around the world, including the Guardian, Monocle, The Times and Condé Nast Traveller.
