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Sata is the cape at the southernmost tip of Kyushu in southwest Japan. Booth, an Englishman living in Japan, walked there from Cape Soya at the northernmost tip of Hokkaido in northern Japan. It took him 128 days, following a mostly rural route down the eastern side of the islands. His book is a delightful series of encounters with and impressions of local people who were astonished to find a foreigner speaking Japanese. He was treated as a friend by many, and as a freak by some. Booth has much to say about modern Japanese life that fails to come out in the more numerous books on urban and industrialized Japan. And thanks to Booth's ability with both Japanese and English, his book is much more enjoyable to read. Recommended for all libraries wanting good books about Japan. Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
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"A marvelous glimpse of the Japan that rarely peeks through the country's public image."-Washington Post Book World
"An illuminating book."-The Economist
"Alan Booth has given us a memorable, oddly beautiful book."-Asian Wall Street Journal
Fluent in the language, well-informed and disabused, [Booth] is in the fine tradition of hard-to-please travelers 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."-Frank Tuohy, Times Literary Supplement
"Alan Booth was not only the best travel writer on Japan, but one of the best travel writers in the English language."-Ian Buruma, author of The Wages of Guilt
"[Booth] achieved an extraordinary understanding of life as it is lived by ordinary Japanese....Frequently brilliant in his insights."-F.G. Notehelfer, The New York Times Book Review
"One of the best foreign observers of Japan today...his book is unsurpas
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I enjoyed this book very much. The writing keeps pace with the author's careful look at Japan. His British humor adds wonderful moments, my favorite of which involve rainy nights on the beach and the strangeness of Japanese pornography. Like an earlier reviewer, I find this story to be as much about Alan Booth's introspection as it is about Japan. The walk is a mere backdrop for Booth the observer to share his insights on life. And they are accurate insights. This is one of the few examples of travel writing that can be enjoyed by everybody, regardless of whether they adore the destination being explored.
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What I liked particularly about this book is not just the sometimes sardonic view of an Englishman on Japan, but that Alan Booth invariably refused to theorise on "the Japanese". He saw "them" as an agglomeration of persons, with their own individual features. My wife thought that the author sounded too often embittered at the way he was being treated by some Japanese, but I thought it was a well-balanced outsider's view on Japan.
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The difficulty with many of the classic accounts of Westerners travelling through Japan is a tendency to either High Seriousness or clowning. In "The Roads to Sata" Alan Booth avoids both of these pitfalls. He loves Japan, but he does not take it seriously. Neither does he feel the need to poke fun at the Japanese, feeling that they will do this themselves. The only flaw in the narrative is the creeping certainty the reader is bound to feel that Booth is something of a fanatic about his walking. He calmly reports all manner of aches and pains that would send most people hobbling to a doctor, at one point remarking in an offhand manner that the trip caused several toenails to fall out! Still, perhaps it takes a fanatic to understand Japan; a country that produces fanatics in weirdly assorted job lots. Provided that the reader is not moved to emulation "The Roads to Sata" is fine introduction to a part of Japan generally not discussed.
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Simply wonderful
I was lucky enough to receive my copy of this book from his wife. Reading the book, though, told me volumes more about the man than any person could. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. September 1998 veröffentlicht
best first-hand insight into the real japan I've ever read
This is a humorous and haunting book....humorous because Booth had a true observers touch for detail, personal observation and contrast. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. August 1998 von SteveJones (gdx39@dial.pipex.com)
Brilliant!!!!
I can't remeber how many times I've read this book, the first being when I was living in Japan but not yet speaking the language and I almost gave up on my classes there and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. August 1998 veröffentlicht
Essential for serious travelers
I picked this book out of the travel section of the library before I made my long-anticipated trip to Japan. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
A witty, fun, informing, and downright great book.
After reading "The Roads to Sata" by Alan Booth, I found myself wanting to make a trip to Japan in order to follow in his footsteps. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. April 1998 veröffentlicht
The Heart of the Japanese People, fondly unfolded by Booth
Alan Booth, a English Author, takes time out to discover, first hand, the country and the people of Japan. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. November 1997 veröffentlicht
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