Kino's journey / Sigsawa, Keiichi

"In a vast forest lies a certain country, a place blessed with abundance, so wonderful that all travelers want to visit at least once. The country is so popular, in fact, that anyone who wishes to stay must enter the tournament held in the coliseum and battle for citizenship and the right to create a new law for the land"--Back cover.

Kino and Hermes travel to a land where anyone who opposed majority rule was executed and a land where disagreements between neighbors are taken out on someone else.

"Kino travels with the trusty talking motorrad, Hermes. The duo are always together, with Hermes providing speed, and Kino providing balance. They stay in each country for no more than three days as a rule--enough time to learn about each destination's unique customs and people. And so Kino and Hermes journey ever onward..."--Back cover.

As Kino travels around the world to many mystical worlds with a talking motorcycle named Hermes, he begins mixing up his words.