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sub title....A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan.....and a great read.
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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
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An illuminating book. --The Economist
An illuminating book. --The Economist
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.
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- PublisherWeatherhill
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0834802465
- ISBN 13 9780834802469
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Maps (illustrator). 2 'nd Edition. SUBTITLED : ` A 2000-Mile Walk through Japan'. The map ahead of the title page shows the length of the island nation of Japan. The author walked from Cape Soya to Cape Sato as per the map. LEARN more about : old gods, happi, paoer lanterns, gaijin, carved dragons, value of booze, Hiroshima, Fukui Prefecture, Typhoon 9, Niigata, and Hanawa. UNillustrated save for the maps of journey segments - perhaps a half dozen of those. Cond : Paper wrapper is dark blue with lettering similar. Cover graphic is a drawing of mountains and seashore. Binding tight, colours bright. Light general wear. No names, bumps nor tears. P/O has left 4 or 5 small red arrows as marrginalia. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 103) : " ._._. and continued up unhampered. In the little glade beside the causeway the sun shone hot, and as the climb grew still steeper the rich Shonai Plain unfolded far below me, lime green with rice. Beyond ._._._. , " Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 011461
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