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Article: Books: Footsore in Japan Anthony Thwaite celebrates a travel writer to rank with the best
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- December 15, 1996
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Looking for the Lost:
Journeys Through a
Vanishing Japan
by Alan Booth
Kodansha International,
pounds 11.99
ALAN BOOTH, brought up in the East End of London, lived in Japan
for over 20 years. Going there first to study the Noh theatre, he
soon became impatient with the way in which the Noh had been
pickled in antiquarianism. But he stayed in Japan, became an active
journalist, came to know the language very well indeed, and went on
long solitary walks in remote parts of the country.
His epic 2,000-mile walk from the northern tip of Hokkaido to the
southernmost extremity of Kyushu was commemorated in his marvellous
The Roads to Sata (1985). It's a book which deserves to stand not
only among ...
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