Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles, (Paperback)

from name99

The sort of thing you'd expect from Simon Winchester, interesting and worth reading. Perhaps the most unexpected things I learned were that Korea is even more "racially pure" than Japan, with only a tiny Chinese minority; and that the Korean Chaebol are post Korean war phenomena, unlike the Japan...

from jcbrunner

Simon Winchester, before he became a popular science biography writer, walked 300 miles across Western South Korea just before South Korea's coming out as a modern nation in the 1988 Summer Olympic Games. My first surprise was how tiny South Korea is. Winchester's 300 miles translates to the dist...

from gbelik

This travelogue written in the late 1980s tells of the author's WALK through Korea from the south up to the DMZ. His love of the country and its people are evident and a welcome dose of warmth about a country where both the weather and the people are often treated coldly. The word about the weath...

from Niecierpek

It's the author's account of his journey on foot through Korea, from Jeju Island in the south to the 38 parallel, retracing the steps of seventeenth-century sailor Hendrick Hamelits who was forced to make this journey after having been shipwrecked and made the king's captive. On his walk, Winches...

from Niecierpek

It's the author's account of his journey on foot through Korea, from Jeju Island in the south to the 38 parallel, retracing the steps of seventeenth-century sailor Hendrick Hamelits who was forced to make this journey after having been shipwrecked and made the king's captive. On his walk, Winches...