Trade paperback edition published by Dover, 2005. Classic travel memoir, Isabella Bird was advised to travel for her health, here she travels through Japan in 1878, not long after it had opened to the West. This is a reprint of the second edition that was published in 1911 by John Murray. 336 pages with Index, illustrated with the forty of the authors own sketches and illustrations. This copy is not a remainder, not a library discard. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. The edges of the text block are clean. There are no creases to the spine or cover. There are just a couple dots of rubbing wear to the front cover, on the letters 'P' and 'N' of the word 'Japan' in the title. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.

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Isabella L. Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer, and a natural historian. From Bird's preface in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan:This is not a "Book on Japan," but a narrative of travels in Japan, and an attempt to contribute something to the sum of knowledge of the present condition of the country, and it was not till I had travelled for some months in the interior of the main island and in Yezo that I decided that my materials were novel enough to render the contribution worth making. From Nikko northwards my route was altogether off the beaten track, and had never been traversed in its entirety by any European. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact. As a lady travelling alone, and the first European lady who had been seen in several districts through which my route lay, my experiences differed more or less widely from those of preceding travellers; and I am able to offer a fuller account of the aborigines of Yezo, obtained by actual acquaintance with them, than has hitherto been given. These are my chief reasons for offering this volume to the public.

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Bookseller: Hopkins Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 21-291
Title: Unbeaten Tracks In Japan
Author: Isabella Bird
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0486445151
ISBN 13: 9780486445151
Publisher: Dover
Place of Publication: Mineola, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 2005
Bookseller catalogs: Travel;

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