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Christopher Ross
Christopher Ross travelled to Japan in 1991 and ended up staying for nearly five years. Here he studied Japanese language and contemporary literature, and took up aikido. He also worked as an English teacher, model and television actor, appearing in numerous commercials and in a popular Japanese historical soap opera. Ross is the author of Tunnel Visions (2002), a bestseller, and Mishima’s Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (2005). Christopher Ross is now a full-time author and lives in Paris.
MISHIMA’S SWORD: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend
The stunning book from Christopher Ross, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of ‘Tunnel Visions’.
Publication date: UK 4th Oct 2010
TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
When Christopher Ross put on a hi-visibility vest and joined London Underground as a station assistant, he discovered a Plato's cave of reflection and human comedy, populated by streakers, buskers, onanists and angry commuters. A meditation on life, a philosophical enquiry into human nature and a profoundly funny dissection of urban madness.
Publication date: UK 4th Feb 2002