Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108014625)

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.

Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
ISBN-10: 1108014623
ISBN-13: 9781108014625
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2010
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.96d