This first-of-its-kind nature handbook, guides and educates visitors to this fascinating island. It helps travelling naturalists find and experience wonderfully dramatic scenery, spectacular wildlife gatherings and numerous outdoor activities throughout the year. Comprehensive and definitive, this is the first nature travel guide devoted to Eastern Hokkaido.
About the author:
Dr Mark Brazil, a British writer, naturalist, ornithologist and international expedition leader, is a long-term resident of Hokkaidō. He founded Japan Nature Guides in 2011 to provide outdoor guide training and nature-guiding services. The author of ten books, mostly about Japan and East Asia, his latest are Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago published in January 2022 by Princeton University Press, and Wild Hokkaidō: A Guidebook to the National Parks and other Wild Places of East Hokkaidō published by Hokkaidō Shimbun Press in June 2021.