Author(s): Hayao Miyazaki
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 208
Publisher: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2011-06-09
Dimensions: 229 x 302 x 23mm
Publication City/Country: San Francisco, United States
Edition: 1st Edition
Illustrations: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations

In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. At the edge of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens, a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes, and home to Nausicaa.