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

Isabella Lucy Bird (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-01462-5 (ISBN)

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This book by Isabella Bird was created from the letters that she wrote to her sister and others. The first volume records the details of the day-to-day life of the Japanese among whom she lived, as well as her first impressions and experiences as an Englishwoman travelling alone.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.6.2010
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
Zusatzinfo	1 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps; 20 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-108-01462-3 / 1108014623
ISBN-13	978-1-108-01462-5 / 9781108014625
Zustand	Neuware