Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

I'm glad I waited until I had been here a year to read this book. Simon Winchester writes about walking across South Korea over 20 years ago. Sometimes I glimpsed a Korea that no longer exists. South ...

I liked Outposts and Fracture Zone; Korea, however, was the end of line for me. Winchester makes a repeated point of how popular he is among South Koreans by virtue of his being English; that was snot...

Korea: A walk through the land of miracles.Perhaps I should have looked into more of Simon Winchester's writings. Perhaps I should have been more careful about the date the book was written. Perhaps I...

Simon Winchester is, as usual, a pleasure to read. The problem with the book is that it's about South Korea 30 years ago when he walked the length of the country. At that time, the "miracles" referred...

I learned a fair amount about Korea that I didn't know, which is the positive thing I can say about this book. But the vaguely creepy paternalistic narration was extremely off-putting - it's very much...

Some interesting info about the country, but it was overshadowed for me by the author's tone when it came to speaking about women and describing some aspects of Korean culture. It would have been a go...

This book has a precious little to recommend for itself. It reads more like a white man's fantasy - encountering hordes of natives fascinated by his 'foreignness' , Korean girls desperate to get a pie...

Once when I became very ill in the Peace Corps, the Medical Officer handed me Winchester's Krakatoa, and ever since I have been a huge fan of his writing. While living in Korea, I happened across this...

Living in Korea has been great. Reading about Korea from the framework of someone who decided to walk across it was even better. I loved Winchester's use of his walk as a framework for going on all ki...

Simon Winchester has written about a wide range of historical subjects and has produced bestseller after bestseller. Some of his more famous works include The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, and T...