Beginner's Guide to Japan

Beginner's Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer is a 2020 Personal Development book written by TED speaker Pico Iyer, paired here with the talk they gave.

The pairing

  • Paired talk: "Where is home?" (2013), 3.9M views on TED.com
  • Timing: Published 7 years after the talk.
  • In the catalogue: The 5th of 5 books by Pico Iyer on Books Worth Reading (1993–2020), by publication year.
  • Edition: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020 · 208 pages

The paired TED talk

Where is home? (2013), the TED talk by Pico Iyer.

From the publisher

Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer, is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. He has been a contributor to Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.

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