The Roads to Sata
'A memorable, oddly beautiful book' Wall Street Journal'A marvellous glimpse of the Japan that rarely peeks through the country's public image' Washington PostOne 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, w…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-199283-9
- EAN: 9780141992839
- Produktnummer: 33404256
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.2 cm 248 g
- Gewicht: 248
Über den Autor
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.
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