Alan Booth – The Roads to Sata- A 200-mile walk through Japan (retail) (epub)
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Name: Alan Booth – The Roads to Sata- A 200-mile walk through Japan (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.21 MB
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Title: The Roads to Sata
Author: Alan Booth
Language: English
Year: 2005
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0975957759
Total pages: N/A
Description:
‘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
One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across the entire length of Japan. Travelling only along small back roads, Alan Booth travelled on foot from Soya, the country’s northernmost tip, to Sata in the extreme south, traversing three islands and some 2,000 miles of rural Japan. His mission: ‘to come to grips with the business of living here,’ after having spent most of his adult life in Tokyo.
The Roads to Sata is a wry, witty, inimitable account of that prodigious trek, vividly revealing the reality of life in off-the-tourist-track Japan. Journeying alongside Booth, we encounter the wide variety of people who inhabit the Japanese countryside – from fishermen and…
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