

The Book of Five Rings
Author: Miyamoto Musashi
Narrator: Scott Brick
Unabridged: 2 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 06/30/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Military History
Synopsis
Along with The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Book of Five Rings has long been regarded as an invaluable treatise on the strategy of winning. Musashi's timeless advice on defeating an adversary, throwing an opponent off-guard, creating confusion, and other techniques for overpowering an assailant was addressed to the readers of earlier times on the battlefield and now serves the modern reader in the battle of life.
In this new rendering by the translator of Hagakure and The Unfettered Mind, William Scott Wilson adheres rigorously to the seventeenth-century Japanese text and clarifies points of ambiguity in earlier translations. In addition, he offers an extensive introduction and a translation of Musashi's rarely published The Way of Walking Alone.