{"product_id":"fuji-sinai-olympos-michael-hoffman-9781949756128","title":"Fuji, Sinai, Olympos","description":"\u003cp\u003eTravel companions on my journeys are four in number: Odysseus, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn and Basho.\" (Travel) \"He walked in priestly garb. Arriving towards evening at a town or village, he'd chant sutras until passersby gave him, or flung him, enough money for a flophouse bed, a little food, a bath and enough sak  to induce a measure of forgetfulness. 'A beggar, ' he admonished himself, 'has to learn to be an all-out beggar. Unless he can be that, he will never taste the happiness of being a beggar.'\" (Walking) '\"The pleasantest of all diversions, ' said the fourteenth-century Japanese priest Kenko,\" is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.' Reading is inseparable from reverie. 'Sitting alone under the lamp, ' I was soon not alone at all, but hosting, I venture to say, as vivid and varied a company as ever gathered under one roof. (Genji, Myshkin and Jones) \"Everest is nothing, mere seismology.\" (Fuji, Sinai, Olympos) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949756122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949756128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Virtualbookworm.com Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Michael Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44920010375423,"sku":"9781949756128","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9238273-3d00-45fc-b897-0b813bb1fa91.jpg?v=1710359965","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fuji-sinai-olympos-michael-hoffman-9781949756128","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}