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Speaker: Leigh Norrie, author of Japan: 6,000 Miles on a Bicycle
Topic: "Pedal Pushin' 'Round Japan"
When: Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, 14 September 2008
Admission: Buy a copy of Japan: 6,000 Miles on a Bicycle from Good Day Books Leigh Norrie was born in 1973 and raised in a North Wales seaside town. He early exhibited an enthusiasm for writing. His earliest story, The Drunk Man, written when he was nine, had a prophetic title. Most cycling he’d done before he arrived in Japan was on his paper delivery route when he was eleven. He was as surprised as anyone to find himself planning an all-prefecture cycling tour of Japan.
Norrie first came to Japan in 1997 to work in one of the more notorious English conversation schools. He didn’t do much sightseeing or studying during his first eight years in Japan, but spent most of his time in bars and izakayas, in and out of work. After almost a decade of declining physical health and mental acuity, he decided to tour Japan by bicycle, just to see if he could. He had planned not to write a book, but to keep a diary. And a diary he kept, religiously.
Six months' peddling a bicycle around rice paddies, over mountain passes, through tunnels, and along shores gave Norrie a new perception not only of Japan and its people, but also of himself and what was important in his life. Which was, in a word, living.
After finishing his tour in Okinawa, Norrie took a year off, and in January 2007 began reviewing his notes and diary entries. Eighteen months later, he had written his first book: Japan: 6,000 Miles on a Bicycle.
Your ticket for admission to Leigh Norrie's BookNotes presentation will be a copy of Japan: 6000 Miles on a Bicycle (Printed Matter Press, 2008), bought from Good Day Books. Paperback copies of Japan: 6000 Miles on a Bicycle are available from Good Day Books for two thousand one hundred yen (¥2100) each, tax included.
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