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Author:	Alan Booth	Publisher:	Kodansha Amer Inc
ISBN-10:	1568361483	Subject:	Travel, Geography & Exploration
ISBN-13:	9781568361482	Topic:	--
Format:	Paperback	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1996	Condition:	Brand New
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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.
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Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	16.8 oz.

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In his final work Alan Booth takes us on a fascinating journey by foot through three remote regions of Japan to search for the country's geographic and spiritual heart - and for the elusive connections between present and past, self and society. Looking for the Lost is a beautifully written, opinionated, and entertaining look at the life and slow death of a culture, and a poignant self-portrait of a writer also nearing death. Booth's journeys begin in the far north, in the homeland of modern Japan's most famous outcast, the decadent novelist Osamu Dazai. His often hilarious encounters in the towns along the lonely, underdeveloped coast where Dazai grew up reveal a region caught between change and tradition, where the effects of Japan's economic miracle are only now being felt. Booth then explores the tangled wilds of southern Kyushu - the battlegrounds where Saigo Takamori, one of Japan's most-loved tragic heroes, led his small rebel army in a futile last stand against overwhelming government forces in 1877. Finally he turns to the mountains and rivers in central Japan where the Heike clan, defeated by the Genji in the epochal twelfth-century civil war, were said to have dispersed. The bloody fall of the Heike marked the decline of refined court culture, an aristocratic golden age that Japan still clings to, however tenuously, in a time of love hotels, tourist traps, and industrial sprawl.
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"This deliberately non-reflective, people-oriented approach makes it hard for the reader to decide to what extent Booth did define and locate 'the lost' in the regions he walked through on these three journeys. But it does allow for a lot of entertaining stories about the people he met who were generous and welcoming, as well as the many who were cold and offensive; the interpolation of a number of acid-bitten reflections on such facets of contemporary Japan as golf, hot spring resorts, eating establishments, the frilly lizard boom, the folk-music boom, highway development, and the 'slow ruination' of rural landscapes, and a sense, implied if not stated, of formerly distinctive regions somewhat unevenly in transition to a condition indistinguishable from the condition of things all over the country." Washington Post Book World - Elizabeth Ward (06/25/1995) "...walking became his principal preoccupation. And in crisscrossing the country--2000 miles in his earlier book, The Roads to Sata, and hundreds of miles in his final one, Looking for the Lost--he achieved an extraordinary understanding of life as it is lived by ordinary Japanese. Frequently brilliant in his insights, surprisingly good-humored in difficult situations and remarkably tolerant of a society that is itself frequently intolerant of outsiders. Booth produced a noteworthy body of travel writings. In his gently humorous and ironic narratives, he drew portraits of the Japanese that played his own perceptions off against the reader's." New York Times Book Review - F.G. Notehelfer (07/02/1995)

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Looking for the Lost

ISBN:	9781568361482
Author:	Booth, Alan
Publisher:	Kodansha Amer Inc
Published:	5/1/1996
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Binding:	PAPERBACK
Weight:	1.0500 lbs.

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