The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile Walk Through Japan (Origami Classroom) - Softcover

Alan Booth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568361874 ISBN 13: 9781568361871

Publisher: Kodansha America, 1997

Synopsis

Although Alan Booth was a city person (he was brought up in London and spent most of his adult life in Tokyo) he had an extraordinary ability to capture the feel of rural Japan in his writing. Throughout his long and arduous trek, Booth encountered a variety of people who inhabit the Japanese countryside, from fishermen and soldiers, to bar hostesses and school teachers, to hermits, drunks and tramps. His wonderful and often hilarious descriptions of these encounters are the highlights of these pages, painting a multifaceted picture of Japan from the perspective of an outsider, but with the knowledge of an insider. The Roads to Sata is travel writing at its best: illuminating and disarming, poignant yet hilarious, critical but respectful. Travelling across Japan with Alan Booth, readers will enjoy the wit and insight of a uniquely perceptive guide, and more importantly, they will discover a new face of an often misunderstood nation.

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Review:

Fluent in the language, well-informed and disabused, [Booth] is in the fine tradition of hard-to-please travellers like Norman Douglas, Evelyn Waugh, and V.S. Naipaul. A sharp eye and a good memory for detail...give an astonishing immediacy to his account. --Times Literary Supplement

An illuminating book. --The Economist

An illuminating book. --The Economist

About the Author:

ALAN BOOTH was born in London in 1946 and travelled to Japan in 1970 to study Noh theatre. He stayed, working as a writer and film critic, until his untimely death in 1993. His highly praised Looking for the Lost is also available from Kodansha Globe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha America
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1568361874
• ISBN 13: 9781568361871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304