Unbeaten Tracks in Japan 2 Volume Paperback Set - Isabella Lucy Bird

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan 2 Volume Paperback Set

An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé
Media-Kombination
840 Seiten
2010
Cambridge University Press
978-1-108-01464-9 (ISBN)
95,65 inkl. MwSt
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Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was created from the letters that she wrote home to her sister and others. This is a fascinating work on the lifestyles, customs, and habits of the people she encountered.
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 1 recounts her experiences as a solo woman traveller living among the Japanese in Yokohama and Niigata. Volume 2 covers her journeys in Yeso, Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Ise Shrines, and includes her experiences of staying with the Hairy Ainu. This is a fascinating work on the lifestyles, customs, and habits of the people she encountered.

Volume 1: Introductory chapter; 1. First view of Japan; 2. Sir Harry Parkes; 3. Yedo and Tôkiyô; 4. Lifeless heat; 5. Narrow grooves; 6. Dr. Hepburn; 7. Theatrical reform; 8. Kwan-non Temple; 9. Fears; 10. A Japanese idyll; 11. The beauties of Nikkô; 12. A Japanese pack-horse and pack-saddle; 13. Peaceful monotony; 14. Comfort disappears; 15. A fantastic jumble; 16. The plain of Wakamatsu; 17. An infamous road; 18. A hurry; Notes on missions in Niigata; 19. Temple Street; 20. Abominable weather; 21. Mean streets; Notes on food and cookery; 22. The canal-side at Niigata; 23. Comely kine; 24. Prosperity; 25. The effect of a chicken; 26. The necessity of firmness; 27. A silk factory; 28. A plague of immoderate rain; 29. The symbolism of seaweed; 30. A holiday scene; 31. The fatigues of travelling; 32. Good-tempered intoxication; 33. Torrents of rain; 34. Hope deferred; 35. A lady's toilet; 36. A travelling curiosity; 37. A hard day's journey. Volume 2: Notes on Yezo; 38. Form and colour; 39. Ito's delinquency; 40. A lovely sunset; 41. Savage life; 42. Barrenness of savage life; 43. A parting gift; 44. A welcome gift; 45. More than peace; 46. A group of fathers; 47. A dubious climate; 48. Pleasant last impressions; 49. Pleasant prospects; Notes on Tôkiyô; 50. A dirty sky; 51. The Hiroshima Maru; 52. Mountain-girdled Kiyôto; 53. The Protestants of Buddhism; 54. Kiyôto shopping; 55. Hugging a Hibachi; Notes on the Isé shrines; 56. A dreary shrine; 57. My Kuruma-runner; 58. Water-ways in Ôsaka; 59. Fine weather; A chapter on Japanese public affairs; Appendix; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.6.2010
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 830 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-01464-X / 110801464X
ISBN-13 978-1-108-01464-9 / 9781108014649
Zustand Neuware
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