Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0486120589
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.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : 金坂清則
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : British
ISBN : 9781898823513
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.
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368319205
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Isabella Lucy Bishop
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 1880
Category :
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Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Bird
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 1881
Category :
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