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Book Synopsis Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by : Isabella Lucy Bird
Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian Crossings written by Steve Clark and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Isabella Bird and Japan written by 金坂清則 and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries by :
Download or read book Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Book Synopsis Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by : Isabella L. Bird
Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella L. Bird and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Yangtze Valley and Beyond by : Isabella Lucy Bird
Download or read book The Yangtze Valley and Beyond written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by : Isabella Lucy Bird
Download or read book A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
Book Synopsis Letters to Henrietta by : Isabella Lucy Bird
Download or read book Letters to Henrietta written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
Book Synopsis The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird by : Jacki Hill-Murphy
Download or read book The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird written by Jacki Hill-Murphy and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan by : Tomoe Kumojima
Download or read book Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan written by Tomoe Kumojima and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love between Victorian female travellers and Meiji Japanese between 1853 and 1912.
Book Synopsis National Parks of Japan by : Mary Sutherland
Download or read book National Parks of Japan written by Mary Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hawaiian Archipelago by : Isabella Lucy Bird
Download or read book The Hawaiian Archipelago written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life of Nobuko by : Kiyonori Kanasaka
Download or read book Life of Nobuko written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and published by Renaissance Books. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japan's leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird. He has published extensively in Japanese on the subject, including a full annotated translation of the original two-volume edition of Unbeaten Tracks. He is known worldwide for his 'Twin Time Travel' photographic exhibition, shown in many countries - presenting Bird's descriptions of what she wrote about in her books in juxtaposition with illustrations of the present.
Book Synopsis Japan and the Shackles of the Past by : R. Taggart Murphy
Download or read book Japan and the Shackles of the Past written by R. Taggart Murphy and published by What Everyone Needs to Know (H. This book was released on 2014 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural perspective"--
Download or read book The Inland Sea written by Donald Richie and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape are a window into an Old Japan that has now nearly vanished. Included are the twenty black and white photographs by Yoichi Midorikawa that accompanied the original 1971 edition. Donald Richie (1924-2013) was an internationally recognized expert on Japanese culture and film. Yoichi Midorikawa (1915-2001) was one of Japan's foremost nature photographers.
Book Synopsis Collected Writings of Carmen Blacker by : Carmen Blacker
Download or read book Collected Writings of Carmen Blacker written by Carmen Blacker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen Blacker's writings on Japan focus on religion, myth and folklore.
Book Synopsis Six Months in the Sandwich Islands by : Isabella Lucy Bird
Download or read book Six Months in the Sandwich Islands written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: