Fitzmaurice Tom - Canned Coffee And Kimonos - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Canned coffee and Kimonos is Tom Fitzmaurice's memoir of the four years he spent living and teaching in Tokyo the biggest city on Earth. A young man from England's rural West Country he was thrust into a new world for which he was completely unprepared and which he found utterly bewildering. Tom gives an insight into the life of an English teacher in this most fascinating of countries and how he found his feet teaching students aged two to ninety - one. From sitting in a robot restaurant watching a giant metal triceratops firing multicoloured laser beams to the quietude of secluded and ancient mountain - top shrines on remote Japanese islands this is a story of coming of age in a beguiling metropolis of culture shock faux pas joy hilarity horror and the steepest of learning curves. Earthquakes hedgehog cafes bathing with the yakuza love hotels typhoons geisha nuclear fallout fascists festivals temples bullet trains karaoke samurai swords sushi and sumo. This memoir has it all.
Title: Canned Coffee And Kimonos
Author(s): Fitzmaurice Tom
Publisher: I 2i Publishing
Barcode: 9781838468651
Pages: 414 Pages
Publication Date: 6/21/2021
Category: Travel Writing