'Cherry' Ingram - The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms

Informationen zum Autor Naoko Abe is a Japanese journalist and non-fiction writer. She was the first female political writer to cover the prime minister’s office, the foreign ministry and the defence ministry at Mainichi Shimbun , one of Japan’s largest newspapers. Since moving to London with her British husband and their two boys in 2001, she has worked as a freelance writer and has published five books in Japanese. Her biography of Collingwood Ingram in Japanese won the prestigious Nihon Essayist Club Award in 2016. She has now written an adaptation of the book for English-language readers. She is a trained classical pianist and an advanced yoga practitioner. Klappentext The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . Zusammenfassung The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of .

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Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Naoko Abe, Abe Naoko
• Con la collaborazione di: Yasuko Arakawa (Traduzione), Yu-Jou Chenn (Traduzione), Nicole Churchill (Traduzione), Rachael Levitan (Traduzione), John Lowe (Traduzione), Gillian Melton (Traduzione), Soeren Otter-Sharp (Traduzione), Nicholas Ruban (Traduzione), Elizabeth Tiu (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.03.2020
• EAN: 9781784706920
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-692-0
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Japan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, GARDENING / Japanese Gardens, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, NATURE / Plants / Trees, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Botany & plant sciences, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Botany and plant sciences