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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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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia

Author: Isabella Lucy Bird

Date Published: June 2010
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format: Multiple copy pack
isbn: 9781108014649

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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.

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Product details
- Date Published: June 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108014649
- length: 840 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.83kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
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.
Author
Isabella Lucy Bird