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IntroductionA friend from Seattle once showed us a nifty pocket compass, a compact device about the size of a bottle cap, which he always carried with him in Japan. He said it was particularly useful when he took the subway: the instrument would enable him to find his bearings when he emerged above...

ForewordAs an occasional visitor to flower arrangement exhibitions, I cannot recall ever once having been deeply moved. Panoplies of works by artists of competing schools rise before me through a vague mist, Uke apparitions from some other world.1 do remember clearly, however, that my conception of...

1 The Cyclone DOROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor, and a roof, which made...

Foreword Here, in a story about everywhere else in the world, is romantic Americana that will one day be history. These pages are themselves adventure. Here the watchmaker's boy from Independence out In Kansas meets the Santa Fe englneeer's daughter from Chanute, plain people from the prairies....

Invaluable travel reference: Bilingual Maps and Atlases from Kodansha InternationalTOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA RAIL & ROAD ATLAS: A Bilingual Guide_Colorful bilingual maps of all major train, subway, bus, and expressway networks in the Tokyo area. Paperback; 96 pp; 150 mm x 212 mmKYOTO-OSAKA: A...