The Wilds of Shikoku
The Wilds of Shikoku, my first book, is about a five hundred kilometer walk across Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, in January and February 2019.
A walk across Shikoku
Learn more about this project at /shikoku
The book is slim and very large — 36 pages, 260×360 mm — and is published in an edition of 500 hand-numbered, unbound, softcover copies, with hand-screened covers.
Credits
- Written, photographed, and published by Peter Orosz
- Additional photography by Gyula Simonyi
- Edited by Nora Selmeczi and Timothy Harris
- Map by Alice Cleary
- Designed by Akos Polgardi
- Printed by Pauker and Geza Selmeczi
- Product photos by Akos Polgardi and Asami Ikeda
- ISBN 978-615-00-5728-6
Launch party
Video by John Ebert
The book was published in August 2019, and I held two launch parties: Budapest in September and Tokyo in November. At the Tokyo launch, I was joined by editors Nora Selmeczi and Timothy Harris, and we talked about how this project came about.
