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The Roads to Sata - A 2000-mile walk through Japan (Paperback)
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The Roads to Sata - A 2000-mile walk through Japan (Paperback)
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List price R316
Loot Price R287
Discovery Miles 2 870
You Save R29 (9%)
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'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 soldiers,
to bar hostesses and school teachers, to hermits, drunks and the
homeless. We glimpse vast stretches of coastline and rambling
townscapes, mountains and motorways; watch baseball games and
sunrises; sample trout and Kilamanjaro beer, hear folklore, poems
and smutty jokes. Throughout, we enjoy the wit and insight of a
uniquely perceptive guide, and more importantly, discover a new
face of an often-misunderstood nation.
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