Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : 金坂清則
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,69 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 : Courier Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 14,21 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 : Kiyonori Kanasaka
Publisher : Renaissance Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781898823797
Isabella Bird's best-selling book on Japan is republished here, but with a difference: for the first time, it is now fully annotated with supporting commentaries, providing the twenty-first century reader with an enhanced informed view of the new 'modern Japan' as Bird experienced it in 1878. Originally published as a two-volume work in 1880, this later abridged version, first published in 1885 and promoted as 'a tale of travel and adventure', became one of the best-selling travel books published by John Murray; it was reprinted numerous times and by different publishers. This volume is the original 1885 edition. It is not a facsimile, but has been reprocessed digitally to enable the annotations to be inserted, as well as the 40 copperplate illustrations to be restored to their original quality. The commentaries and notes have been written by Kiyonori Kanasaka, Japan's leading expert on Isabella Bird who, over the past nearly 30 years, has retraced Isabella Bird's footsteps in all the parts of the world she visited, and knows her travels in Japan intimately. (See Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment, Renaissance Books 2017.) This book will be essential reading for all those interested in the Bird legacy, the birth of modern Japan, travel writings of the Far East, the topography of Japan and Japan's social and political history.
Author : Kiyonori Kanasaka
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN : 9781898823520
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Estes Park (Colo.)
ISBN :
Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555535544
The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 1900
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Jacki Hill-Murphy
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399003803
Isabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad'. In Japan she rode on a 'yezo savage' through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks, and was followed in the city by a crowd of a thousand, whose clogs clattered 'like a hailstorm' as they vied for a glimpse of the foreigner. She documented America before and after the Civil War and was deported from Korea with only the tweed suit she stood up in during a Japanese invasion. In China she was attacked with rocks and sticks and called a foreign dog, but she never gave up and went home. 'The prospect of the unknown has its charms.' Transformed by distant lands, she crossed raging floods, rode elephants, cows and yak, clung to her horse's neck as it clambered down cliff paths, slept on simple mats on the bare ground, unable to change out of wet clothes or get out of the searing heat. Her travels and the books she wrote about them show courage and tenacity, fueled by a restless spirit and a love of nature. She is as unique now as she was then.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird,
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781724817730
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.