KlarBooks.com website of the world's most unsuccessful author, Nicholas Klar
Title
Welcome to Klar Books! A new Japan book, travel writing from Asia, information + book and movie links to Japan, author samples, recommended articles - plus more!
Description
Klarbooks.com is the home page of author, Nicholas Klar - a peripatetic teacher, historian and writer originally from Adelaide, Australia (but it's highly unlikely anyone remembers him there.)
He has lived in five different countries (all with varying GDP, democratic practices and personal hygiene regimes), studied in Australia and the U.S., and has travelled widely throughout Asia and the Pacific.
His most recent incarnation was as a teacher of History in international schools in Asia. His only real claims to recent fame are that he once was, 1) the only person in the whole of Shanghai without a mobile phone, and 2) apparently the only non-beer drinking Australian in the whole of East Asia.
‘My Mother is a Tractor’, released in late 2005, is his first full-length book - a rollicking, fact-filled ride through the Land of the Rising Sun and the JET Program that will both amuse and inform. He has also had several short stories, travelogues, articles and essays published previously in various media such as The Japan Times, Shanghai Daily, Fukuoka-Now, Asia! and Voyage.
When previously resident in Japan he was a regular contributor to the JET Journal, Niigata JOHO and other magazines. Additionally he was editor / webmaster of the now badly ageing Joetsu goodo Travel Guide, the very popular travel portal - Welcome to Myoko!, as well as The unofficial guide to the JET Programme.
After recently departing Shanghai after six long years he is now apparently lost somewhere between a hot spring in Kyushu and a hawker stall in S-E Asia.
His ambition is world peace, plus to be very rich without ever having to actually work for it. And maybe also to never hear the words "Hey...let’s climb Mount Fuji!" again.
Languages
English
Address
- PO Box 280
- Brighton, SA 5048
- AUSTRALIA
