{"product_id":"9780986338731","title":"Eastern Odyssey: A Family Journal of our Trek through Japan and Russia in 1973","description":"Consider the year 1973: Vietnam war still winding down; the cold war is going strong; the Nixon presidency is falling apart. It is also the year that a family of six traveled to Japan, across Russia, and spent half a year in Europe before returning home from this trip all the way around the world. \u003cp\u003eIt Was the Adventure of a Lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1973 Don Swenson decided to use his one-year sabbatical from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to visit some of the leading laboratories around the world -- particularly in Japan, Russia, and Geneva. It would be not only a professional visit, but also a trip for his wife Barbara and 4 children to see the world. Barbara insisted that she and the children keep a journal to record their experiences along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first stop was Japan in Tsukuba about 30 minutes north of Tokyo by train. They visited Nikko, Hakone, Kamakura, Kyoto, Hiroshima, while just trying to hold the family together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second stop was Russia, boarding the Trans-Siberian Railway in Nakhodka and on to Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, and ending up in Helsinki, Finland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the compilation of those four different journals. For each of 146 days, there are up to four entries, one from each of the contributors. Each entry giving a different viewpoint of what happened; telling the same story in a different way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Purple Hills Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023971729648,"sku":"9780986338731","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986338731_p0.jpg?v=1763885304","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986338731","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}