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 / by Isabella L. Bird.
Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was published in 1880 and recounts her travels in the Far East, begun four years earlier. 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, A...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Cambridge) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
|
| Series: | Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was published in 1880 and recounts her travels in the Far East, begun four years earlier. 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. Based on the letters Bird wrote home, primarily to her sister, Volume 2 covers her journeys to Yeso, Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Ise Shrines, and includes her experiences of staying with the Hairy Ainu, the indigenous inhabitants of northern Japan. As with the first volume, it includes much detail of the lifestyles, customs, and habits of the people she encountered, as well as a chapter on Japanese public affairs. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Aug 2011). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780511709845 0511709846 9781108014632 1108014631 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511709845 |
| Language: | English. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (Electronic book). |
| Host Item Entry: | Cambridge books online. |