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.
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 Lucy BirdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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 BirdPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317727339
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
The author's account of travelling through Japan in 1878. This is a narrative of travels in Japan communicated via letters. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Letters to Henrietta
Author: Isabella Lucy BirdPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
Asian Crossings
Author: Steve ClarkPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622099149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.
Author: Isabella Lucy Bishop