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Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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:
Author : 金坂清則
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898823513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (235 download)
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.
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486120589
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
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.
Author : Kiyonori Kanasaka
Publisher : Renaissance Books
ISBN 13 : 9781898823797
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and published by Renaissance Books. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
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.
Author : Kiyonori Kanasaka
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ISBN 13 : 9781898823520
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Isabella Bird and Japan written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535544
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (355 download)
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.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird,
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724817730
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella Lucy Bird, and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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:
Author : Jacki Hill-Murphy
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781399003803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
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.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611043150
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" was written by Isabella L. Bird, one of the most famous British travelers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her destinations included Canada, the United States (the Rocky Mountains), Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Persia, Kurdistan, China, and Morocco. She is particularly known for her intrepidness and lively writing style. Written in the form of letters to her sister, "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" is viewed as a classic of travel writing and a valuable account of little documented areas of Japan in that era. Rather than stay in the Tokyo region or travel south to Kyoto, the mecca of Japanese civilization, she chose to travel north through the most arduously mountainous areas and eventually visit the island of Hokkaido, where lived the indigenous Ainu. "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" provides a fascinating firsthand account of the Japanese countryside and its inhabitants, detailed descriptions of nature, and interesting observations about the customs and characteristics of both the Japanese and Ainu people. Isabella Bird deliberately chose to avoid the main routes as she traveled northward, and for the villagers she meets along the way, she is the first foreigner that they have ever laid their eyes upon. The reaction that she provokes is enough to make you laugh as Isabella does a good job of describing the scene before her eyes while travelling the "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan."
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Collected Travel Writings of Isabella Bird: Unbeaten tracks in Japan, 1-2 written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429003375
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Englishwoman in America written by Isabella Bird and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English traveler explores New England and the Mid-west, commenting on social mores and politics.
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040623208
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) written by Isabella Bird and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
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Download or read book Korea and Her Neighbours written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna M. Stoddart
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Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop) written by Anna M. Stoddart and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
