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The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories
Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old hunter who divulges a strange legend to them...surrounded by hungry wolves and fighting for their survival, two explorers head for Alaska to bury their companion...1920's Japan and a man sets out to find the bear that killed his son...a marine biologist begins a quest to find the mythical graveyard of whales. Through tales filled with respect for animal life this splendid collection - which lies at the crossroads of poetry and adventure - shows master story-imager Taniguchi at his award winning best.
240 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2004
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About the author
Jirō Taniguchi
205 books615 followersName (in native language): 谷口 ジロー
Zodiac: Leo
He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa.
He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.
From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3.
From 1984 to 1991, Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai.
In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki.
In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius.
Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1998) for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai, the Shogakukan prize with Inu wo Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) for Harukana Machi-E.
His work has been translated in many languages.
Far from the violent storylines often associated with the manga, Taniguchi has developed a very personal style, more adult. Along with other writers, like Tsukasa Hōjō, his comics focus more on the Japanese society and culture, with a subtle analysis of its customs and habits.
Zodiac: Leo
He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa.
He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.
From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3.
From 1984 to 1991, Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai.
In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki.
In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius.
Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1998) for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai, the Shogakukan prize with Inu wo Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) for Harukana Machi-E.
His work has been translated in many languages.
Far from the violent storylines often associated with the manga, Taniguchi has developed a very personal style, more adult. Along with other writers, like Tsukasa Hōjō, his comics focus more on the Japanese society and culture, with a subtle analysis of its customs and habits.
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February 14, 2020
Mi amor por la obra de Jiro Taniguchi nace de varios factores. El principal responde a una sensación, la de que sus cómics transpiran literatura. Sus viñetas me producen la misma impresión que la lectura de un libro, y eso es algo que he encontrado raras veces en un medio que tiene su propio lenguaje y un modo distinto de recepción. La narrativa de Taniguchi siempre se muestra literaria, en sus obras contemplativas, en las históricas, en las rayanas al slice of life o, incluso, en las que enfrentan al hombre con la naturaleza. Es, este último, uno de los temas principales de su obra y otra de las causas de mi devoción por el autor japonés. En esta colección de relatos hay de todo un poco, pero que el elegido para dar título a la antología sea "El viajero de la tundra" no es casual. Los tres cuentos de mayor peso se corresponden con esa temática, con el ser humano enfrentado a las montañas y nieves del norte. En el primer cuento, el protagonista es Jack London; el segundo está basado en un pasaje de "La llamada de lo salvaje", el clásico del escritor. "Hacia la montaña" es un magnífico relato de enfrentamiento entre un hombre y un oso, que no por recurrente deja de maravillar. Hay también una pequeña joya de infancia impregnada de ese aire nostálgico que tan bien sabe manejar Taniguchi, un relato de ciudad de afán costumbrista y quizás autobiográfico y, por último, un delicioso y emotivo cuento del norte centrado en la muerte de una ballena. Todo relatado con el tempo calmo y mágico del maestro japonés y con sus perfectos y fascinantes dibujos. Es siempre una alegría para la mente y el corazón leer sus cómics.
May 2, 2022
Este mangaka es una apuesta segura te puede gustar más o menos aunque no hay una obra que no tenga sentimiento y te transmita multitud de sensaciones. Siempre es un placer perderme entre sus paginas y en esta ocasión me ha recordado una obra que he leído de Jack London de hecho aparece reflejado
November 12, 2011
In fifth grade they had us watch a short-film adaptation of Jack London's "To Build a Fire." I don't know if we were treated to the all-words version as well. It's the film that I remember and it's the film that completely turned me off of both Jack London's body of work and the survival genre in general.
It's not so much that there was anything wrong with Cobham's motion picture adaptation but that I was unable to process that horrible situation as anything other than something truly horrifying. There was no room for interpreting the narrative in terms of man vs. nature. It was more just, "Holy hell, I will never go anywhere if there is snow involved!" And that was enough to put a sour taste in my mouth for London's work from that point forward. When our class in junior high was reading Call of the Wild, I skipped it. When the White Fang movie came out in high school, I skipped it. When I had the opportunity to see Sea Wolf on the big screen in repertory, I skipped it. Even though I was on a Gregory Peck kick at the time.
So it's a good thing I didn't know how indebted to London this collection of Taniguchi's shorts would be, because otherwise I might have missed out on a truly wonderful set of stories.
The Ice Wanderer is one of those rare anthologies that include not a single weakness. Certainly some stories are better conceived than others but it's more a question of whether a story will be Good or Great rather than the more common Good, Okay, or Bad. The book is themed around the idea of man vs. nature (and sometimes man with nature), with only a single inclusion straying from that tonal direction. I had fortunately already gotten past my No Survival Fiction hurdle months earlier almost through trickery. I had been reading Taniguchi's Inu o Kau, a story of a couple taking care of their dog in its old age, and the final chapter attached ("Promised Land") was completely unrelated— the story of a man's attempt to scale Annapurna massif in Nepal. I was already pages into it when I realized what I was reading, so I continued and it was very good and very much worth my time. Despite my hesitations.
The same can be said for pretty much every story included in The Ice Wanderer. Worth your time and very good. Taniguchi has a unique ability to convey nature (and its nature) through his art. I first encountered him in The Walking Man and was impressed with the virtuosity with which he approaches his landscapes. His pen is very fine-lined and he baptizes his landscapes in a kind of detail that makes Arthur Adams look minimalistic. That attentive detail is very much present in The Ice Wanderer and after I devoured his stories, I enjoyed sitting back and simply admiring the art he pours into each page.
In The Ice Wanderer's first story, Taniguchi tells a perhaps bio-apocryphal story of Jack London's days in the Klondike during the gold-hunting years. It's a sober reminder of the power of nature and its wrath upon those who fail to respect it. It's well done and intrigued me enough that I actually looked up London's biographical sketch on Wikipedia. Did you know that when London was 13, "he borrowed money from his black foster mother Virginia Prentiss, bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate" and that "in his memoir, he claims to have stolen French Frank's mistress Mamie." A thirteen-year-old oyster pirate and Lothario. The mind reels.
The next story, one of my favourites of the collection, is apparently an adaptation of the first part of London's White Fang. I may have known this had I seen the movie when I was in high school. The story of two men hauling a third one, a corpse, through the frigid wilderness to civilization while being stalked by merciless wolves is tense and built on excitement. As members of the dog team slowly succumb to nightly raids, it becomes questionable whether any of these men—live or dead—will meet their destination. I found the story thrilling and ultimately satisfying. Still not enough to convince me to pick up White Fang, but I'm glad to see there's gold to be mined from London's works.
The next two stories are the two best of the show. The first pits an old man against the renegade bear that killed his son years earlier. (I know, right!) It's a hard story, watching a man possibly throw away everything that matters in a bid for revenge. Apart from the question of the man's own survival, Taniguchi asks whether the price for such action is too high in the end. The next tale pits a young boy against his own weak and cowardly nature and an older girl against her own perhaps too-strong nature—all while both strive against nature as a storm sweeps their small boat to sea. Each of these stories concern the dangers always present in the natural world, but are still more cognizant of the struggles that take place even within our own hearts.
The fifth story, concerning a struggling mangaka, is good but out of place. Its inclusion seems as abrupt as the inclusion of the mountain-climbing story did in Inu o Kau. The sixth story, about a man seeking a humpback's sacred burial ground, is tender in its way and seems almost prototype for Daisuke Igarashi's wonderful Children of the Sea.
The Ice Wanderer is a fascinating book for how its particulars explore on the surface the struggle between man and nature—but use this setting to sound out more interesting ideas. Taniguchi, as he's shown in both The Walking Man and Inu o Kau, sees the human relationship with the natural realm less as confrontation and more as symbiosis. Certainly he sees nature's present boundaries, which will threaten to destroy the man or woman foolish enough to transgress those lines, but at the same time Taniguchi presents a beautiful, awe-striking world in which humanity does harbour some chance at living not at odds with but alongside the natural realm.
[Review courtesy of Good Ok Bad]
It's not so much that there was anything wrong with Cobham's motion picture adaptation but that I was unable to process that horrible situation as anything other than something truly horrifying. There was no room for interpreting the narrative in terms of man vs. nature. It was more just, "Holy hell, I will never go anywhere if there is snow involved!" And that was enough to put a sour taste in my mouth for London's work from that point forward. When our class in junior high was reading Call of the Wild, I skipped it. When the White Fang movie came out in high school, I skipped it. When I had the opportunity to see Sea Wolf on the big screen in repertory, I skipped it. Even though I was on a Gregory Peck kick at the time.
So it's a good thing I didn't know how indebted to London this collection of Taniguchi's shorts would be, because otherwise I might have missed out on a truly wonderful set of stories.
The Ice Wanderer is one of those rare anthologies that include not a single weakness. Certainly some stories are better conceived than others but it's more a question of whether a story will be Good or Great rather than the more common Good, Okay, or Bad. The book is themed around the idea of man vs. nature (and sometimes man with nature), with only a single inclusion straying from that tonal direction. I had fortunately already gotten past my No Survival Fiction hurdle months earlier almost through trickery. I had been reading Taniguchi's Inu o Kau, a story of a couple taking care of their dog in its old age, and the final chapter attached ("Promised Land") was completely unrelated— the story of a man's attempt to scale Annapurna massif in Nepal. I was already pages into it when I realized what I was reading, so I continued and it was very good and very much worth my time. Despite my hesitations.
The same can be said for pretty much every story included in The Ice Wanderer. Worth your time and very good. Taniguchi has a unique ability to convey nature (and its nature) through his art. I first encountered him in The Walking Man and was impressed with the virtuosity with which he approaches his landscapes. His pen is very fine-lined and he baptizes his landscapes in a kind of detail that makes Arthur Adams look minimalistic. That attentive detail is very much present in The Ice Wanderer and after I devoured his stories, I enjoyed sitting back and simply admiring the art he pours into each page.
In The Ice Wanderer's first story, Taniguchi tells a perhaps bio-apocryphal story of Jack London's days in the Klondike during the gold-hunting years. It's a sober reminder of the power of nature and its wrath upon those who fail to respect it. It's well done and intrigued me enough that I actually looked up London's biographical sketch on Wikipedia. Did you know that when London was 13, "he borrowed money from his black foster mother Virginia Prentiss, bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate" and that "in his memoir, he claims to have stolen French Frank's mistress Mamie." A thirteen-year-old oyster pirate and Lothario. The mind reels.
The next story, one of my favourites of the collection, is apparently an adaptation of the first part of London's White Fang. I may have known this had I seen the movie when I was in high school. The story of two men hauling a third one, a corpse, through the frigid wilderness to civilization while being stalked by merciless wolves is tense and built on excitement. As members of the dog team slowly succumb to nightly raids, it becomes questionable whether any of these men—live or dead—will meet their destination. I found the story thrilling and ultimately satisfying. Still not enough to convince me to pick up White Fang, but I'm glad to see there's gold to be mined from London's works.
The next two stories are the two best of the show. The first pits an old man against the renegade bear that killed his son years earlier. (I know, right!) It's a hard story, watching a man possibly throw away everything that matters in a bid for revenge. Apart from the question of the man's own survival, Taniguchi asks whether the price for such action is too high in the end. The next tale pits a young boy against his own weak and cowardly nature and an older girl against her own perhaps too-strong nature—all while both strive against nature as a storm sweeps their small boat to sea. Each of these stories concern the dangers always present in the natural world, but are still more cognizant of the struggles that take place even within our own hearts.
The fifth story, concerning a struggling mangaka, is good but out of place. Its inclusion seems as abrupt as the inclusion of the mountain-climbing story did in Inu o Kau. The sixth story, about a man seeking a humpback's sacred burial ground, is tender in its way and seems almost prototype for Daisuke Igarashi's wonderful Children of the Sea.
The Ice Wanderer is a fascinating book for how its particulars explore on the surface the struggle between man and nature—but use this setting to sound out more interesting ideas. Taniguchi, as he's shown in both The Walking Man and Inu o Kau, sees the human relationship with the natural realm less as confrontation and more as symbiosis. Certainly he sees nature's present boundaries, which will threaten to destroy the man or woman foolish enough to transgress those lines, but at the same time Taniguchi presents a beautiful, awe-striking world in which humanity does harbour some chance at living not at odds with but alongside the natural realm.
[Review courtesy of Good Ok Bad]
December 25, 2025
El viajero de la tundra es un manga que me ha encantado tanto por su contenido como por su apartado visual. El estilo es extremadamente detallado, lo que invita a una lectura contemplativa en la que cada viñeta parece detener el tiempo.
A través de su dibujo,se percibe una profunda nostalgia por un Japón cada vez más desaparecido: una nación rural, despoblada, ligada a la tradición, a lo preurbano y a una forma de vida anterior a la modernización acelerada.
En sus historias, se establece una conexión muy interesante entre Japón y Alaska. Taniguchi contrapone estas tierras con la figura del hombre, retratado como avaricioso e incapaz de comprender o respetar los ritmos naturales. Frente a él, la naturaleza aparece como fuerza autónoma, regida por sus propias normas, pero también como un espacio cargado de leyendas y mitos ancestrales.
El autor no solo muestra pasión por la montaña, sino también por el mar, al que asocia con una infancia feliz en el pueblo, una sencilla y libre que hoy en día resulta casi inexistente. Estos recuerdos transmiten una melancolía serena, una añoranza por momentos irrepetibles que solo pueden existir en armonía con el entorno natural.
En conjunto, siento que el mensaje central de la obra es la necesidad de reconocer la conexión del ser humano con la naturaleza. Taniguchi nos recuerda que nunca podremos controlarla por completo, pero que, si aprendemos a escucharla, ella nos regala experiencias inolvidables que permanecen con nosotros para siempre.
A través de su dibujo,se percibe una profunda nostalgia por un Japón cada vez más desaparecido: una nación rural, despoblada, ligada a la tradición, a lo preurbano y a una forma de vida anterior a la modernización acelerada.
En sus historias, se establece una conexión muy interesante entre Japón y Alaska. Taniguchi contrapone estas tierras con la figura del hombre, retratado como avaricioso e incapaz de comprender o respetar los ritmos naturales. Frente a él, la naturaleza aparece como fuerza autónoma, regida por sus propias normas, pero también como un espacio cargado de leyendas y mitos ancestrales.
El autor no solo muestra pasión por la montaña, sino también por el mar, al que asocia con una infancia feliz en el pueblo, una sencilla y libre que hoy en día resulta casi inexistente. Estos recuerdos transmiten una melancolía serena, una añoranza por momentos irrepetibles que solo pueden existir en armonía con el entorno natural.
En conjunto, siento que el mensaje central de la obra es la necesidad de reconocer la conexión del ser humano con la naturaleza. Taniguchi nos recuerda que nunca podremos controlarla por completo, pero que, si aprendemos a escucharla, ella nos regala experiencias inolvidables que permanecen con nosotros para siempre.
November 1, 2022
Jiro Taniguchi's mangas are always beautifully drawn, calm and tell emotional stories. However, I didn't like this volume at all, the stories were very boring.
The whale story saved this one from a one star rating. That one was amazing <3.
The whale story saved this one from a one star rating. That one was amazing <3.
July 22, 2022
Taniguchi's ode to Jack London and some other outdoors adventure stories. Taniguchi is so great at illustrating nature and telling captivating tales that you always know that you're in good hands.
December 18, 2016
A collection of stories in the manga format which "pays homage to the works of Jack London" which is certainly the case with the first as London himself features in it and the postscript explains that it was based on a fragment of a story found in one of his notebooks. The second story is lifted directly from the opening of White Fang (which I had recently read, so recognised immediately) however, the remaining stories are more distinctly Japanese in content, and not knowing of any connection between London and that part of the World (except that the postscript of The Ice Wanderer mentioning that he had a Japanese servant) I am not sure how related these stories are to any of his other works, or if they are just of the style. Our Mountains, about an old man hunting the bear that killed his son and the final story, Return to the Sea, about an old humpback whale headed towards its final resting place and a diver following him, are certainly close to London's themes of animals and nature. Kaiyoses-Jima's children being shipwrecked on a deserted island during a storm plays to his idea of untameable nature, but Shokaro, about a frustrated Mangaka (Manga artist) living in a room in a converted former brothel seems an odd fit thematically, but is still a nice little story. Overall it's quite a nice little collection of stories with decent artwork, but nothing that really stands out.
February 6, 2016
A mythological white moose god and an old bowhead whale frame this collection from beginning to end. The stories mostly involve human struggle against nature, though this may come in the form of deadly snow storms, angry oceans, accidental interruptions in whales hunting in the ocean, swimming lessons, and, well, ghosts... The art is superb. Whether it be facial expressions or detailed renditions of inanimate objects, buildings, and streets, Jiro Taniguchi's manga is alive and real. His expertise in drawing animals really shines through in these stories; the big bear, wolves, hunting dogs, whales, and mooses are all drawn in full glorious detail. Action scenes jump right out of the page full of muscle, blood, and sinew. All of the stories, save for the last one about the marine biologist and the whales, seem to be of bygone times, which is true for some, and not for others. But there is that languid, rural feeling, a certain melancholy that permeates throughout.
Recommended for Miyazaki fans and animal lovers (though there is some violence against wild animals).
Recommended for Miyazaki fans and animal lovers (though there is some violence against wild animals).
January 16, 2022
A collection of short stories by Jiro Taniguchi, the art is top notch (as is to be expected) although I found the subject matter to be even more regressive then usual. Taniguchi's fixation on old people taking themselves out to the wilderness to die is disturbing, racist in the way it was initially applied to Inuit people and then whales. It's really a shame since Taniguchi is not only so technically skilled, but also so effective at creating such delicious emotions.
June 27, 2013
Not my cup of moose, oh sorry, tea.
April 19, 2016
interesting stories in black and white
December 14, 2023
Entre las mejores lecturas del año sin discusión alguna.
Si algo caracteriza a la obra de Jirō Taniguchi es esa manera tan única de tratar temas tan cotidianos para el ojo común. Pero de una profundidad considerable para el observador avezado.
En ésta recopilación de historias sobre los propósitos en la vida, la convicción e instinto de supervivencia, el milagro del nacimiento, la rememoranza del pasado, las metas y sueños del porvenir y la muerte misma vista desde una perspectiva más bella que lúgubre. Se le suma a la exquisita narrativa, el extraordinario arte de este notable autor.
Escoger una historia o solo un par sería quitarle mérito a las demás. Debido a que, para mí, a pesar de ser relatos sin ninguna conexión entre sí. Los considero como un conjunto donde se explora la vida misma.
La humanidad con sus vivencias, logros, derrotas, convicciones, cultura, inteligencia, deseos, miedos, romances, ambiciones, creencias, calamidades, pérdidas, tesoros, etc.
Los animales siendo parte primordial del ecosistema. Siguiendo su instinto para sobrevivir, una selección natural, una brújula de peregrinaje, una migración o hibernación, un estilo de cacería, un método de defensa, etcétera.
La naturaleza, a la cual obedecen los elementos, el fuego, el viento, el agua, la tierra; los fenómenos naturales, la ventisca, los aludes, la lluvia, el huracán, los sismos, las sequías; las estaciones, verano, invierno, otoño, primavera; etcétera.
Cómo mencioné al inicio de esta opinión, las historias de Jirō Taniguchi, son más disfrutables para el espectador avezado. Aquél que ve divertimento en una salida a caminar, una tarde en el parque, un momento a solas en silencio para contemplar todo aquéllo servido en nuestro entorno para ser admirado.
Si algo caracteriza a la obra de Jirō Taniguchi es esa manera tan única de tratar temas tan cotidianos para el ojo común. Pero de una profundidad considerable para el observador avezado.
En ésta recopilación de historias sobre los propósitos en la vida, la convicción e instinto de supervivencia, el milagro del nacimiento, la rememoranza del pasado, las metas y sueños del porvenir y la muerte misma vista desde una perspectiva más bella que lúgubre. Se le suma a la exquisita narrativa, el extraordinario arte de este notable autor.
Escoger una historia o solo un par sería quitarle mérito a las demás. Debido a que, para mí, a pesar de ser relatos sin ninguna conexión entre sí. Los considero como un conjunto donde se explora la vida misma.
La humanidad con sus vivencias, logros, derrotas, convicciones, cultura, inteligencia, deseos, miedos, romances, ambiciones, creencias, calamidades, pérdidas, tesoros, etc.
Los animales siendo parte primordial del ecosistema. Siguiendo su instinto para sobrevivir, una selección natural, una brújula de peregrinaje, una migración o hibernación, un estilo de cacería, un método de defensa, etcétera.
La naturaleza, a la cual obedecen los elementos, el fuego, el viento, el agua, la tierra; los fenómenos naturales, la ventisca, los aludes, la lluvia, el huracán, los sismos, las sequías; las estaciones, verano, invierno, otoño, primavera; etcétera.
Cómo mencioné al inicio de esta opinión, las historias de Jirō Taniguchi, son más disfrutables para el espectador avezado. Aquél que ve divertimento en una salida a caminar, una tarde en el parque, un momento a solas en silencio para contemplar todo aquéllo servido en nuestro entorno para ser admirado.
September 1, 2019
Ci sono sei storie raccolte in questo volume, tutte ottimamente disegnate, ma diverse come toni.
Le prime tre sono storie di montagna e gelo, di tradizioni etniche e delle difficoltà di vita in ambienti estremi. Vi è un chiaro richiamo a Jack London, presente anche come coprotagonista del primo racconto, sia nelle tematiche che nell'ambientazione delle storie. Una di queste storie è un horror decisamente convincente. Una è una storia di etnie che scompaiono, e una una storia di "vendetta" (ma non è il termine corretto, in Giappone c'è un termine specifico per questo tipo di cose che non ricordo) verso un orso. Una storia di morte e di vita.
Poi ci sono tre storie diverse, di mare mi verrebbe da dire: una che sembra un pezzo autobiografico, una che è chiaramente una storia romantica e una su un biologo e il mitico cimitero delle balene.
Tre storie meno intense delle prime, ma comunque belle e godibili.
Nel complesso tre stelle e mezzo.
Le prime tre sono storie di montagna e gelo, di tradizioni etniche e delle difficoltà di vita in ambienti estremi. Vi è un chiaro richiamo a Jack London, presente anche come coprotagonista del primo racconto, sia nelle tematiche che nell'ambientazione delle storie. Una di queste storie è un horror decisamente convincente. Una è una storia di etnie che scompaiono, e una una storia di "vendetta" (ma non è il termine corretto, in Giappone c'è un termine specifico per questo tipo di cose che non ricordo) verso un orso. Una storia di morte e di vita.
Poi ci sono tre storie diverse, di mare mi verrebbe da dire: una che sembra un pezzo autobiografico, una che è chiaramente una storia romantica e una su un biologo e il mitico cimitero delle balene.
Tre storie meno intense delle prime, ma comunque belle e godibili.
Nel complesso tre stelle e mezzo.
January 23, 2025
J'ai grandi dans une région rurale et souvent je trouve que les gens ont une vision trop romancée de la nature. C'est le cas aussi avec la quasi-totalité des auteurs.
Sauf celui-ci.
Taniguchi a une plume délicate. On le voit à ses traits de crayons qui laissent toute la place à la nature dans sa beauté et sa sauvagerie et on pourrait presque en ressentir le froid du grand nord canadien. La nature ne tue pas sans raison et Taniguchi a choisi des histoires qui font réfléchir aux décisions humaines qui prétendent surpasser la nature.
À noter que plusieurs des histoires de cette anthologie sont des adaptations de Jack London, mais si ce n'aurait pas été noté en fin de livre, je ne m'en serais pas rendue compte. Il faudrait quasiment lire ce livre autour d'un feu de camp.
Sauf celui-ci.
Taniguchi a une plume délicate. On le voit à ses traits de crayons qui laissent toute la place à la nature dans sa beauté et sa sauvagerie et on pourrait presque en ressentir le froid du grand nord canadien. La nature ne tue pas sans raison et Taniguchi a choisi des histoires qui font réfléchir aux décisions humaines qui prétendent surpasser la nature.
À noter que plusieurs des histoires de cette anthologie sont des adaptations de Jack London, mais si ce n'aurait pas été noté en fin de livre, je ne m'en serais pas rendue compte. Il faudrait quasiment lire ce livre autour d'un feu de camp.
August 20, 2018
Este manga consiste en 6 pequeñas historias que muestran la crudeza y al mismo tiempo la belleza y la grandiosidad de la naturaleza. Las tres primeras tienen lugar en la alta montaña y en la tundra, mientras que el resto están más centradas en el mar (aunque está la quinta historia, que es un poco indefinible). Además, las dos primeras historias son un homenaje a Jack London. Creo que Jiro Taniguchi hizo un gran trabajo sobre todo a la hora de representar esos espacios naturales, convirtiéndolos los verdaderos protagonistas de los relatos.
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February 27, 2021Six beautiful short stories with a poetic tone. Taniguchi's art is extremely clear and detailed. In this book we get to see his take on rural Japan, Klondyke during the gold rush, and subsurface Arctic seas. He can draw wolfs, whales, and mountains all with the same authenticity and elegance. The stories in this book might seem straightforward but are told with a poet's sensibility. There is a sort of nostalgic longing for something lost. I guess Taniguchi is a romantic in a quiet, maybe Japanese, way.
September 27, 2023
Genlæsning, men jeg kunne faktisk ikke huske historierne. Jeg deler ikke japanernes fascination af Jack London og de historier, han fortalte, så for mig er de to første fortællinger ikke rigtigt interessante eller vedkommende, men den tredje rummer virkelig noget almenmenneskeligt og er stærkt fortalt. De tre sidste historier er anderledes og meget mere vedkommende. Flotte, smukke og personlige fortællinger. Særligt den sidste fortælling, 'Return to the Sea' rummer det hele og trænger ind under huden på mig.
Dejlig overraskelse.
Dejlig overraskelse.
October 16, 2017
Este volumen recopila historias breves de aventuras del gran Jiro Taniguchi. Antes de ganarse el reconocimiento universal por sus profundas historias personales, el maestro Taniguchi realizó muchas historias de aventuras para público juvenil (y no tanto). Incluso en alguno de los cuentos se atisban los elementos que darán forma a su obra más autobiográfica y tono personal, como "Barrio lejano" o "El caminante". Entretenido, magistralmente realizado.
September 2, 2023
Sobresaliente. Con un estilo de dibujo sencillo, sus pretensiones, logra transmitir sensaciones indescriptibles en casi todos los relatos.
Destacan por sobre todo, el páramo blanco y regresar al mar, sin embargo las otras historias no es que sean malas, sino que estas dos merecen 5 estrellas.
Me voy con la sensación de que he leído las primeras historias en algún libro de Jack London, pero aún no recuerdo en cuál.
Destacan por sobre todo, el páramo blanco y regresar al mar, sin embargo las otras historias no es que sean malas, sino que estas dos merecen 5 estrellas.
Me voy con la sensación de que he leído las primeras historias en algún libro de Jack London, pero aún no recuerdo en cuál.
February 20, 2024
Unfortunately forgot to add this and it's too far back to write a sensible review. Suffice to say, as a fan of Taniguchi's work, you can't go far wrong here. This is a collection of short stories in graphic narratives, all of which deal with the wilderness and wildlife. They are often brutal, uncompromising stories that don't glorify nature. I remember a gruesome showdown with a wolf pack and a typical Taniguchi moment with the maw of a whale that takes your breath away. He is a special talent and a unique storyteller.
January 15, 2025
## Key takeaways
- Incredible collection of stories showcasing the never-ending battle and connection between humanity and the natural world.
- The slow, meditative and dream-like quality of Taniguchi’s works are unmatched, and give me that same fuzzy emotional feeling like the movies of Studio Ghibli.
- ‘Our Mountains’, ‘Kaiyose-Jima’, and 'Return to the Sea’ are the standouts for me, truly beautiful tales, the pain and loss stays with you.
- Incredible collection of stories showcasing the never-ending battle and connection between humanity and the natural world.
- The slow, meditative and dream-like quality of Taniguchi’s works are unmatched, and give me that same fuzzy emotional feeling like the movies of Studio Ghibli.
- ‘Our Mountains’, ‘Kaiyose-Jima’, and 'Return to the Sea’ are the standouts for me, truly beautiful tales, the pain and loss stays with you.
February 5, 2020
4,5/5 ⭐️
Un superbe recueil de petites histoires autour de l’Arctique (sauf deux). Ces petites légendes/histoires étaient super sympa à découvrir et me laissent avec un petit sentiment de nostalgie, comme si j’avais vécue toutes ces vies. Les dessins m’ont vraiment séduites et j’ai hâte de lire les autres mangas de l’auteur.
Un superbe recueil de petites histoires autour de l’Arctique (sauf deux). Ces petites légendes/histoires étaient super sympa à découvrir et me laissent avec un petit sentiment de nostalgie, comme si j’avais vécue toutes ces vies. Les dessins m’ont vraiment séduites et j’ai hâte de lire les autres mangas de l’auteur.
April 25, 2020
Very good art, but the writing was quite bland - there is one very good short story set in rural Japan, but the other short stories are set in North America and feel like rather straightforward adaptions of stories from old adventure magazines, without doing anything interesting with them.
April 26, 2022
6 nouvelles courtes mais avec punch, haut en couleurs et bourrés d'émotions... L'aventure commence en Alaska sur la Yukon, avec Jack London... Venez passer un moment avec l'auteur à ses débuts, puis plongez et découvrez le Cimetière des baleines...
September 17, 2017
Det var mycket fint ritat och jag gillade faktarutorna. Början var rätt seg för män som går på jakt med hundar inte är särskilt intressant, för mig, men den växte efterhand.
November 15, 2018
3.5⭐️/5
February 24, 2020
Interesting collection of short stories.
June 28, 2020
Wunderbare Striche, großartige Umsetzung schöner, tiefgreifender Geschichten
Typisch Taniguchi
Typisch Taniguchi
May 10, 2023
''Čovjek iz tundre '' - 5
''Bijela pustara'' - 5
''Prema planini'' - 5
''Kaiyoseyima'' . 3.5
''Shokaro'' - 3
''Povratak moru'' - 4
''Bijela pustara'' - 5
''Prema planini'' - 5
''Kaiyoseyima'' . 3.5
''Shokaro'' - 3
''Povratak moru'' - 4
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