'A marvelous glimpse of the Japan that rarely peeks through the country's public image.'--Washington Post Book World
'An illuminating book.'--The Economist
'Alan Booth has given us a memorable, oddly beautiful book.'--Asian Wall Street Journal
'Fluent in the language, well-informed and disabused, [Booth] is in the fine tradition of hard-to-please travelers 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.'--Frank Tuohy, Times Literary Supplement
'Alan Booth was not only the best travel writer on Japan, but one of the best travel writers in the English language.'--Ian Buruma, author of The Wages of Guilt
'[Booth] achieved an extraordinary understanding of life as it is lived by ordinary Japanese..Frequently brilliant in his insights.'--F.G. Notehelfer, The New York Times Book Review
'One of the best foreign observers of Japan today..his book is unsurpassed.'--Far Eastern Economic Review
'To Travel with Alan Booth is to travel in very civilized company indeed, but also close to the ground. He has a mind that illuminates and enlivens everything it encounters.'--Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist
'Booth's capacity for rueful, discerning observation will keep him in the front ranks of travel writers for years to come.'--Kirkus
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