LOOKING FOR THE LOST Allan Booth - Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan

This is a used travel book in good condition: clean with light reading wear to edges and corners; nice clean pages. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Author Booth, who walked the length of Japan in 1977, also took three separate journeys by foot through rural areas of Japan several years later. The stories of those trips make up this book. In the first, to the Tsugaru peninsula on Japan's northwest tip, he retraces the steps of Japanese novelist Dazai Osamu, a native of that region who wrote a book about a journey back there as an adult. The second trip, through the wilderness on the island of Kyushu, was inspired by an episode from Japanese history; Booth follows the path taken by Saigo Takamori, a rebel general who was defeated in 1877. The third is a melancholy journey following a river into the hills north of Nagoya, where Booth sought traces of the descendants of the 12th-century Heike clan. Booth was dying while he wrote the book, and his nostalgia encompasses not just the lost Heike, but the looming loss of his own life.

Book Details

Code: SKU1027

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 387

Published: 19954 by Kodansha International

ISBN: 1568361483

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $10.00