A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south.
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.
'Illuminating'
*Economist*
'A memorable, oddly beautiful book'
*Wall Street Journal*
'A marvellous glimpse of the Japan that rarely peeks through the
country's public image'
*Washington Post*
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.
*The Times Literary Supplement*
[Booth] achieved an extraordinary understanding of life as it is
lived by ordinary Japanese....Frequently brilliant in his
insights
*The New York Times*
'One of the classic Japan travel books of the modern age ... a
vivid but witty portrayal of rural Japan in the seventies, and the
quirky characters who populated it'
*Japan Times*
Booth vividly evokes his 2,000-mile, 128-day journey on foot from
Japan's northernmost point, Cape Soya in Hokkaido, to Cape Sata in
the south. As he recounts his misadventures on this epic trek, he
engagingly reveals the realities of off-the-tourist-track
Japan.
*National Geographic*
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