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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Travelers' Tales Classics Paperback - 2000
by Isabella L. Bird
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This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan--a rarity not only because of Bird's gender but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hard scrabble lives. Illustrations.
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- Title Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Travelers' Tales Classics
- Author Isabella L. Bird
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Travelers' Tales, San Francisco
- Date October 30, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1885211570
- ISBN 9781885211576 / 1885211570
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.12 x 1.11 in (20.62 x 13.00 x 2.82 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Japan - Description and travel, Bird, Isabella L - Travel - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00044320
- Dewey Decimal Code 915.204
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Summary
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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"EIGHTEEN days of unintermitted rolling over ""desolate rainy seas"" brought the ""City of Tokio"" early yesterday morning to Cape King, and by noon we were steaming up the Gulp of Yedo, quite near the shore."
