Isabella L. Bird: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is Isabella L. Bird's vivid account of her 1878 journey through northern Japan, especially the rural T hoku and Hokkaid regions still little known to Western readers. Written in epistolary form, the book combines ethnographic observation, travel adventure, landscape description, and Victorian moral reflection. Its style is precise, energetic, and often unsentimental, placing it within the great nineteenth-century tradition of exploratory travel writing while also revealing the complexities of early Meiji Japan. Bird was one of the most remarkable women travellers of her age: physically fragile yet extraordinarily resilient, intellectually curious, and unusually independent. Her experiences in North America, the Middle East, and Asia trained her eye for social detail and geographical particularity. In Japan, her status as an outsider and as a woman shaped both her access and her limitations, producing a narrative that is perceptive, candid, and historically revealing. This book is strongly recommended to readers interested in Japan, travel literature, women's writing, and cross-cultural encounter. Though marked by some assumptions of its period, it remains a compelling document of observation, endurance, and literary intelligence.

Genre:	Kunst
Produktart:	Reiseführer
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788027284931
ISBN-10:	8027284937
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Bird, Isabella L.
Hersteller:	Good Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	OK Publishing s.r.o., 20a, Kosíre, Zahradníckova 1220, ?-150 00 Prague, obrody@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Isabella L. Bird
Gewicht:	0,323 kg