The Wilds of Shikoku
About the book
The Wilds of Shikoku is about a five hundred kilometer walk across Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, in January and February 2019.
The book is slim and very large — 36 pages, 260 mm × 360 mm — and is published in an edition of 500 hand-numbered, unbound, softcover copies, with hand-screened covers.
This book is also available in a special edition of 16, Tokushima Blue, whose covers are printed on indigo-colored paper from Tokushima, where the walk begins.
Shipping and delivery
Your purchase includes a physical copy of the book and the PDFs of the digital edition, which are available immediately.
Shipping: $5 to Estonia, $15 to everywhere else.
The book is also stocked by ISBN Books + Gallery in Budapest, Hungary.
Reviews
“A psychogeographical masterpiece”
“An essential travelogue”
What this book isn’t
The island of Shikoku is known for the pilgrimage in which henro, Buddhist pilgrims, walk between 88 of the island’s temples. This book is not about that journey. Instead, it follows in the footsteps of Alan Booth, the English author of The Roads to Sata and Looking for the Lost, who walked across Shikoku in May and June 1983. Booth’s account of his own journey, “Roads Out of Time”, was published in the anthology This Great Stage of Fools.
Credits
- Written, photographed, and published by Peter Orosz
- Additional photography by Gyula Simonyi
- Edited by Nora Selmeczi and Timothy Harris
- Map by Alice Cleary
- Designed by Akos Polgardi
- Printed by Pauker and Geza Selmeczi
- Product photos by Akos Polgardi and Asami Ikeda
- ISBN 978-615-00-5728-6
About the author
📷 Portrait by Nishimoto Kyōko
My name is Peter Orosz. I live in Tartu, Estonia. My family name is pronounced O-ros — it’s the Hungarian word for “Russian”, which I am not.
The Wilds of Shikoku is my first book. My writing and photography is informed by the long walks I regularly go on.
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Email: peter@ilovewasting.ink
You’ll get a physical copy of the book in the mail and two PDFs for immediate reading.