Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From the Tokyo Riot Police [Audiobook] download free by Robert Twigger
- Listen audiobook: Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From the Tokyo Riot Police
- Author: Robert Twigger
- Release date: 2000/8/28
- Publisher: IT BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780688175375
- Rating: 9.93 of 10
- Votes: 890
- Review by: Jose Goddard
- Review rating: 9.87 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/3
- Duration: 3H58M13S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-04
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, MPEG-4 ALS, WAV, AU, MPEG4, MP3 (compression CHM, ZIP, ACE, RAR, LZMA, CBZ)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M1S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Adrift in Tokyo, translating obscene rap lyrics for giggling Japanese high school girls, 'thirtynothing' Robert Twigger comes to a revelation about himself: He has never been fit nor brave. Guided by his roommates, Fat Frank and Chris, he sets out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is drawn into the world of Japanese martial arts, joining the Tokyo Riot Police on their yearlong, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against bloodstained 'white pyjamas' and fractured collarbones. In Angry White Pyjamas, Twigger blends, the ancient with the modern-the ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s-to provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of life in contemporary Japan.Adrift in Tokyo, 'thirtynothing' Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: He had never been fit or brave. Guided by his roommates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained 'white pyjamas' and fractured collarbones. In this entertaining book, Twigger blends the ancient with the modern-the ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the 'dojo' (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s-to provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of contemporary Japan.Adrift in Tokyo, 'thirtynothing' Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: He had never been fit or brave. Guided by his roommates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained 'white pyjamas' and fractured collarbones. In this entertaining book, Twigger blends the ancient with the modern-the ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the 'dojo' (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s-to provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of contemporary Japan.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Biography: General, Combat Sports & Self-defence, Biography: Sport
- Download servers: Volafile, FreakShare, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, SeedPeer, Hotfile, Uploaded. Compressed in CHM, ZIP, ACE, RAR, LZMA, CBZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.59 USD
- Dimensions: 135x204x19mm
- Weight: 272g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Not Available
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