- Published: 2 February 2021
- ISBN: 9780141992839
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $26.00
The Roads to Sata
A 2000-mile walk through Japan
- Published: 2 February 2021
- ISBN: 9780141992839
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $26.00
Illuminating
Economist
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
Fluent in the language, well-informed and disabused, Booth is in the fine tradition of hard-to-please travellers 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
The Times Literary Supplement
An extraordinary understanding of life as it is lived by ordinary Japanese . . . Frequently brilliant in his insights
The New York Times
One of the classic Japan travel books of the modern age ... a vivid but witty portrayal of rural Japan in the seventies, and the quirky characters who populated it
Japan Times
Booth vividly evokes his 2,000 mile, 128-day journey . . . and engagingly reveals the realities of off-the-tourist-track Japan
National Geographic