Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878

Isabella L. Bird was one of the most famous British travelers of the nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Author: Isabella L. Bird
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878 by Bird, Isabella L.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878

CHF 28.74

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878

CHF 28.74
Author: Isabella L. Bird
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Isabella L. Bird was 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, her account of her trip to Japan in 1878 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. With the Ainu, Isabella took an ambiguous stance: she admired them tremendously on the one hand but could not, on the other, find it in her heart to remove them from the category of savages. The Foreword, "Reading between the Lines," calls into question the accuracy of Isabella's observations of the Japanese and Ainu and casts doubt on the judgments she formed. Readers are urged to read the book actively, rather than passively, if they are not to be led astray by Isabella's biases and eccentricities.

Author: Isabella L. Bird
Publisher: Japan & Stuff Press
Published: 04/29/2006
Pages: 412
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9784990284800

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