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Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:
May 2022
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781898823803
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781898823803
Subjects:
East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History
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Book description

Isabella Bird's best-selling book on Japan is republished here, but with a difference: for the first time, it is now fully annotated with supporting commentaries, providing the twenty-first-century reader with an enhanced informed view of the new 'modern Japan' as Bird experienced it in 1878.

Originally published as a two-volume work in 1880, this later abridged version, first published in 1885 and promoted as 'a tale of travel and adventure', became one of the best-selling travel books published by John Murray; it was reprinted numerous times and by different publishers. This volume is the original 1885 edition. It is not a facsimile, but has been reprocessed digitally to enable the annotations to be inserted, as well as the forty copperplate illustrations to be restored to their original quality. The commentaries and notes have been written by Kiyonori Kanasaka, Japan's leading expert on Isabella Bird who, over the past nearly thirty years, has retraced Isabella Bird's footsteps in all the parts of the world she visited, and knows her travels in Japan intimately.

This book will be essential reading for all those interested in the Bird legacy, the birth of modern Japan, travel writings of the Far East, the topography of Japan and Japan's social and political history.

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