The Japan Lights

The Japan Lights

By Iain Maloney

Genre:-Non-fiction Travel Memoir/History/Biography

Pages:-244

Publisher:-Tippermuir Books

Blurb:-In 2017, holed up in a hotel room, feverish, despondent and aimless, Iain Maloney chances upon an article about Richard Henry Brunton, a Victorian civil engineer unknown in his Scottish homeland but considered 'The Father of Japanese Lighthouses' in Japan. With more than twenty of his lighthouses still in use today, Maloney sets out with newfound purpose to visit them all.

 Part travel memoir, part history, The Japan Lights visits isolated regions of rural Japan, discovering compelling stories from its past. Maloney witnesses the lingering trauma of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, and comes to a new understanding of the precariousness of life on a planet that is 71 per cent water. On the way he explores the paradox of Brunton, a flawed human being whose work saved hundreds of thousands of lives and made the seas around Japan safer for all.

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My Review:-Ian Maloney has the job to visit every lighthouse in Japan, built by

 Scotsman Richard Henry Brunton during the modernization period of the Meiji Era in Japan. Ian Maloney travelled with his wife all around Japan for the lighthouses. Maloney wasn't like. His memoir was very much unpublished. I did find this book very interesting, I enjoyed reading about the different places in Japan as well as hearing about Meiji Era. I have family in Japan and I have asked questions about different things, thanks to this book. There is also some humour in this book.

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