false 99800 0 0 171242 1568361874 9781568361871 16 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171242.The_Roads_to_Sata_A_2000_Mile_Walk_Through_Japan 4.21 72 Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth traversed Japan's entire length on foot, from Soya at the country's northernmost tip, to Cape Sata in the extreme south, across three islands and some 2,000 miles of rural Japan. The Roads to Sata is his wry, witty, inimitable account of that prodigious trek.
Although he was a city person-he was brought up in London and spent most of his adult life in Tokyo - Booth had an extraordinary ability to capture the feel of rural Japan in his writing. Throughout his long and arduous trek, he encountered a variety of people who inhabit the Japanese countryside-from fishermen and soldiers, to bar hostesses and school teachers, to hermits, drunks, and tramps. His wonderful and often hilarious descriptions of these encounters are the highlights of these pages, painting a multifaceted picture of Japan from the perspective of an outsider, but with the knowledge of an insider.
The Roads to Sata is travel writing at its best, illuminating and disarming, poignant yet hilarious, critical but respectful. Traveling across Japan with Alan Booth, readers will enjoy the wit and insight of a uniquely perceptive guide, and more importantly, they will discover a new face of an often misunderstood nation.]]> 99800 4.18 113 27 1985 171241 1568361483 9781568361482 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172386427m/171241.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172386427s/171241.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171241.Looking_for_the_Lost_Journeys_Through_a_Vanishing_Japan 4.09 35
Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far removed from the stereotypes familiar to Westerners. Whether retracing the footsteps of ancient warriors or detailing the encroachments of suburban sprawl, he unerringly finds the telling detail, the unexpected
transformation, the everyday drama that brings this remote world to life on the page. Looking for the Lost is full of personalities, from friendly gangsters to mischievous children to the author himself, an expatriate who found in Japan both his true home and dogged exile. Wry, witty, sometimes
angry, always eloquent, Booth is a uniquely perceptive guide.

Looking for the Lost is a technicolor journey into the heart of a nation. Perhaps even more significant, it is the self-portrait of one man, Alan Booth, exquisitely painted in the twilight of his own life.]]> 99800 4.18 113 27 1995 6365126 0140095667 9780140095661 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6365126-the-roads-to-sata 5.00 1 99800 4.18 113 27 1987 6377385 9622171885 9789622171886 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6377385-introduction-to-japan 0.0 0 99800 4.18 113 27 1991 6273347 0805849785 9780805849783 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6273347.The_New_Population_Problem_Why_Families_in_Developed_Countries_Are_Shrinking_and_What_It_Means 0.0 0 Divided into four Parts, the text:
*looks at contemporary trends in U.S. fertility, thus setting the stage for the entire volume;
*discusses social and cultural values and attitudes;
*analyzes fertility decisions in different countries; and
*focuses on the possible long-term consequences of current fertility trends for individuals, families, and societies.

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