Author: Isabella Lucy BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella Lucy BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella L. BirdPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120589
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The intrepid explorer recounts her 1878 excursion into the back country of the Far East. Bird describes the vicissitudes of her journey — the difficulties as well as the excitement and rewards.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella Lucy BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Isabella Bird and Japan
Author: 金坂清則Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898823513
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by detailed maps, it also offers a highly illuminating view of Japan and its people in the early years of the 'New Japan' following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as well as providing a valuable new critique on what is often considered as Bird's most important work. The central focus of the book is a detailed exploration of Bird's journeys and the careful planning that went into them with the support of the British Minister, Sir Harry Parkes, seen as the prime mover, who facilitated her extensive travels through his negotiations with the Japanese authorities. Furthermore, the author dismisses the widely-held notion that Bird ventured into the field on her own, revealing instead the crucial part played by Ito, her young servant-interpreter, without whose constant presence she would have achieved nothing. Written by Japan's leading scholar on Isabella Bird, the book also addresses the vexed question of the hitherto universally-held view that her travels in Japan in 1878 only involved the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido. This mistaken impression, the author argues, derives from the fact that the abridged editions of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan that appeared after the 1880 two-volume original work entirely omit her visit to the Kansai, which took in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and the Ise Shrines. Bird herself tells us that she wrote her book in the form of letters to her sister Henrietta but here the author proposes the intriguing theory that these letters were never actually sent. Many well-known figures, Japanese and foreign, are introduced as having influenced Bird's journey indirectly, and this forms a fascinating sub-text.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a travel diary written by Isabella Bird of her trip to Japan in 1878, at the age of 47. It was first published in English in 1881. It was later translated into Japanese by Tsurukichi Itō.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella L. BirdPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387019203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella Lucy BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella Lucy BirdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781611043150
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" was written by Isabella L. Bird, one of the most famous British travelers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her destinations included Canada, the United States (the Rocky Mountains), Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Persia, Kurdistan, China, and Morocco. She is particularly known for her intrepidness and lively writing style. Written in the form of letters to her sister, "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" is viewed as a classic of travel writing and a valuable account of little documented areas of Japan in that era. Rather than stay in the Tokyo region or travel south to Kyoto, the mecca of Japanese civilization, she chose to travel north through the most arduously mountainous areas and eventually visit the island of Hokkaido, where lived the indigenous Ainu. "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" provides a fascinating firsthand account of the Japanese countryside and its inhabitants, detailed descriptions of nature, and interesting observations about the customs and characteristics of both the Japanese and Ainu people. Isabella Bird deliberately chose to avoid the main routes as she traveled northward, and for the villagers she meets along the way, she is the first foreigner that they have ever laid their eyes upon. The reaction that she provokes is enough to make you laugh as Isabella does a good job of describing the scene before her eyes while travelling the "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan."
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella BirdPublisher:
ISBN: 9781694030016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a travel diary written by Isabella Bird of her trip to Japan in 1878, at the age of 47. It was first published in English in 1881 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It was later translated into Japanese by Tsurukichi Itō
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird,Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724817730
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior By Isabella Lucy Bird Having been recommended to leave home, in April 1878, in order to recruit my health by means which had proved serviceable before, I decided to visit Japan, attracted less by the reputed excellence of its climate than by the certainty that it possessed, in an especial degree, those sources of novel and sustained interest which conduce so essentially to the enjoyment and restoration of a solitary health-seeker. The climate disappointed me, but, though I found the country a study rather than a rapture, its interest exceeded my largest expectations. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.