Alan Booth (5 December 1946 – 24 January 1993) was an English travel writer who wrote two books on his journeys on foot through the Japanese countryside. The better-known of the two, The Roads to Sata (published in 1985) is about his travels (in 1977) from the northernmost cape in Hokkaidō (Cape Soya) to the southern tip of Kyūshū in Cape Sata. The second, Looking for the Lost, was published posthumously in 1995. Booth also wrote a guidebook to Japan as well as numerous articles on Japan and other topics.

Nel 2003 la BBC trasmise Meet the Stans, una serie in quattro episodi sull'Asia centrale scritta e diretta da Simon Reeve. La realizzazione della serie portò Reeve a visitare il Kazakistan, il Kirghizistan, il Tagikistan e l'Uzbekistan, alla ricerca delle città legendarie della Via della seta, Samarcanda e Bukhara.

Nous avons reçu la visite d'un Américain, M. Martinet, qui fait le tour du monde pieds nus, portant sur son dos son matériel de campement.