Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Perfect Collection

From the Academy Award-winning creator of the hit movie Spirited Away! Nausicaa is an epic environmental cautionary tale by Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki, creator of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. This masterpiece is now available in a new edition in its original Japanese format! In a long-ago war, humankind, in its hubris, set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies have been swallowed up and the Earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest filled with mutant fungi that release a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. Nausicaa, a compassionate young princess, and her allies battle to heal a wounded world and its inhabitants. Nausicaa, a gentle but strong-willed, young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects, who open their hearts to her. In her quest to create peace among empires fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources, will Nausicaa be able to interpret the Ohmus' urgent warning about the southern forest? And what of the war which rages all around her?Miyazaki, Hayao is the author of 'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Perfect Collection', published 2004 under ISBN 9781591163503 and ISBN 1591163501.