#albert saijo

[vintagecamping]

The Backpacker guidebook by Albert Saijo

Published 1972

[kammartinez]

One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet

On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back

[kamreadsandrecs]

One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet

On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back

[lilithsaintcrow]

"As Snyder’s rucksack revolution was calcifying into Zen and backpacking industrial complexes, Saijo wrote a slim how-to, markedly different from the many that were being published on the topic of walking into the woods."

One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet

On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back

[kaggsy59]

"In the middle of an empty plain..." #triptrap #jackkerouac

Last month, when I made a little visit to London, I had my usual crisis in advance of heading to the station about what book I would read on my travels! This always has to be chosen carefully; it has to be not too big to be a pain carrying, something I’m in the mood for, and a book that will last for at least a couple of hours’ reading. Well, I cast around on the TBR and came up with a slim work…

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IF NOT CIVILIZATION THEN WHAT

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