The Traveling Tree

Translator Eli K.P. William renders Hoshino’s playful but reverential prose into English for the first time… The Traveling Tree proves how boundless curiosity - whether for roaming wolves, Arctic glaciers or bush pilots - can breathe better, more honest, open-ended attention into the world we inhabit * The Japan Times *Elegantly translated into English for the first time * Literary Review *Hoshino’s prose sits somewhere between Henry David Thoreau’s matter-of-fact observations in Walden and Annie Dillard’s poetical musings in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. * Asian Review of Books *

Michio Hoshino was a Japanese-born nature photographer. After his introduction to Alaska, Hoshino was smitten with America’s northernmost state and dedicated the remainder of his life to photographing and writing about it. The Travelling Tree is a collection of his writing and will be supplemented in translation with a selection of his finest images. It was published at the peak of his artistic prowess, only two years before his career was tragically cut short at the age of 43 by a fatal bear attack while on a shoot in the Kamchatka Peninsula.