الشجرة المتنقلة: الكتاب الياباني الأكثر مبيعًا في العالم

From world-renowned photographer Michio Hoshino, and half a million copies sold in Japan, this enduringly popular collection recounts Hoshino's experiences with wildlife and offers his reflections on our place in it. First published in 1994, The Wandering Tree, reprinted 57 times (half a million copies sold), by world-renowned photographer Michio Hoshino, is considered a classic of nature literature. In this still widely popular collection, naturalist, mystic, and adventurer Michio Hoshino recounts his experiences with wilderness, and reflects on our place in it. Michio Hoshino's life changed radically after he found in a used bookstore in Tokyo a book containing an aerial photograph of the small village of Shishmarev, an Inupiaq (Eskimo) village. This teenager was immediately charmed by the beauty of this small group of residences overlooking the Arctic Ocean. I wonder what kind of people live in such a remote place, which seems as if it is at the ends of the earth? The picture aroused his curiosity so much that he decided to write a letter asking if he could visit the village. Because he did not know to whom to address the letter, he simply wrote it to “Mayor Shishmarev.” To his surprise, he heard back from an Iñupiaq family willing to host him, and he spent the following summer, at the age of nineteen, immersed in their lifestyle. After this first experience in Alaska, Hoshino fell in love with this northernmost state in America, and devoted the rest of his life to photographing and writing about it. The Moving Tree is a collection of his writings published at the height of his artistic career, just two years before his tragic death at the age of forty-three following a fatal bear attack while filming on the Kamchatka Peninsula.