The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk through Japan - Softcover

Booth, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140095667 ISBN 13: 9780140095661

Publisher: Penguin, 1987

Synopsis

The author travelled the length of Japan to record the colourful scenes and characters along the route to Sata. He describes the diverse, elusive culture of the people he met and attempts to uncover the true nature of modern Japan.

About this title

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: Penguin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140095667
• ISBN 13: 9780140095661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288