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

Isabella Lucy Bird

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511709838

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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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Volume 1
Isabella Lucy Bird

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: July 2011
Print publication year:: 2010
First published in:: 1880
Online ISBN:: 9780511709838
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709838

Subjects:: East Asian History, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Anthropology
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia

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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.

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

PREFACE
pp vii-x

Contents
pp xi-xviii

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
pp xix-xix

ERRATA
pp xx-xx

GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE WORDS
pp xxi-xxiv

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
pp 1-11

LETTER I
pp 12-21

LETTER II
pp 22-25

LETTER III
pp 26-31

LETTER IV
pp 32-39

LETTER V
pp 40-43

LETTER VI
pp 44-52

LETTER VII
pp 53-61

LETTER VIII
pp 62-78

LETTER IX
pp 79-93

LETTER IX.—(Continued.)
pp 94-103

LETTER X
pp 104-107

LETTER XI
pp 108-118

LETTER XII
pp 119-127

LETTER XIII
pp 128-136

LETTER XIII.—(Continued.)
pp 137-141

LETTER XIII.—(Completed.)
pp 142-146

LETTER XIV
pp 147-162

LETTER XV
pp 163-169

LETTER XV.—(Concluded)
pp 170-175

LETTER XVI
pp 176-185

LETTER XVII
pp 186-190

LETTER XVIII
pp 191-195

NOTES ON MISSIONS IN NIIGATA
pp 196-206

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