Korea - A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

Following the path described in the first account of Korea published in the West three centuries ago, Winchester walked over 300 miles northwards from the honeymoon island of Cheju to the capital city of Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone on the North Korean border. His progress took him to tiny fishing villages and immense industrial cities, across high mountain rangs and lowland rice-fields, to Buddhist monasteries set in starkly beautiful landscapes to high-tension American bomber bases. Revealing the history, national attitudes and recent political and social developments as he goes along, Winchester describes with humour and sumpathy a country whose recovery after the devastation of the Korean War has been one of the economic wonders of the modern world...