Alan Booth

Alan Booth was a well-known English travel writer, who wrote two insightful books on his journeys by foot through the Japanese countryside. The better-known of the two, The Roads to Sata is about his travels from the northernmost cape in Hokkaidō to the southern tip of Kyūshū in Cape Sata. His second book, Looking for the Lost, was published posthumously in 1995. Booth was born in London and studied drama at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he had acted and directed for the National Youth Theatre and was a prominent member of the University of Birmingham's Guild... Theatre Group in the late 60's. Among the plays he directed at Birmingham University were Hamlet , done in Noh style, and his own translation of Racine's Phaedra, set in a Samurai milieu. He also directed an open-air production of Marlowe's Faustus in Birmingham's Cannon Hill Park. While a student at Birmingham he won the Birmingham Post's Annual Poetry Prize, and was a regular contributor to the Birmingham University students' poetry magazine, Mermaid.
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