Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé

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ID19906567
AuthorsIsabella Bird (corresponding author), Isabella Lucy Bird
Year2010
Pages205-212
Publication date2010-06-24
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueUnbeaten Tracks in Japan Vol. 1 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511709838
OpenAlexW1988320499
Open LibraryOL34435724M
ISBN9780511709838
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was published in 1880 and recounts her travels in the Far East from 1876. Bird was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. She toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Sandwich Islands, before travelling to the Far East in order to strengthen herself to marry Dr John Bishop and live in Edinburgh. Created out of the letters Bird wrote home, primarily to her sister, Volume 1 recounts her experiences as a solo woman traveller living among the Japanese in Yokohama and Niigata. It includes descriptions of clothing, food and drink, education, housing, theatre, women's lifestyles, religion, plant life, medicine, shopping and other day-to-day activities, as well as the vicissitudes and excitement of the conditions and process of travelling, including by boat and pack-horse

Art · Butterfly · Geography · Visual arts · Ecology · History · Japanese History and Culture · 1831-1904 · Bird, isabella l. (isabella lucy) · description and travel · Japan · Social life and customs

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