Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan (Paperback)

'A fantastically offbeat odyssey brimming with irony, poetry and insight.' - Scotsman 

'Beneath that thick skin lies a poetic soul: he may drink too much, and end up sweaty and alone in sad 'Love Hotels', but he can write about Shintoism, history, nature and architecture with real sensitivity. Hitching allows him to give us a fresh and funny perspective on a nation that can be both mysterious and "beyond surreal".' - Sunday Times 

'I enjoyed Hokkaido Highway Blues immensely - Mr Ferguson is a very gifted writer.' - Bill Bryson

'Loaded with insights and highly original observations, this is overall an outstanding piece of travel writing. That so much of it is side-splittingly funny helps.' - Insight Japan 

'A mild stroke of genius . . . it's difficult not to warm to his free-wheeling style. It always sounds stupid to describe something as "laugh-out-loud-funny", but parts of his concisely-sectioned travelogue are savagely hilarious.' - Sunday Herald