1st Edition

Japan & Corea

By Loti Copyright 2002
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2002. In this book Loti describes his second visit to Japan, and there are many charming pictures in the true Loti style: pictures of himself seated solitary on black velvet cushions, while two little Japanese maidens sing and dance for his sole pleasure: the lonely wood by the deserted temple, where he keeps a daily tryst with a Japanese child love; of the mountainside where... Read more
Foreword, Chapters I - LVI

Biography

Pierre Loti, perhaps the world's most prolific, romantic and exotic travel writer and novelist, was born as Julien Marie Viaud in Rochefort in Western France in 1850.