Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Revisiting Isabella Bird
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Product details:
- Edition number 1, New edition
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 July 2018
- ISBN 9781898823797
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages426 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English 0
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Short 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.
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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 40 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 30 years, has retraced Isabella Bird’s footsteps in all the parts of the world she visited, and knows her travels in Japan intimately. (See Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment>, Renaissance Books 2017.) 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Author's Preface to the English Edition, The Kanasaka Commentaries: Background to the Publication of the Abridged Edition, 1885, Structure of the Abridged Edition and Organization of this Annotated Edition, Treatment of Bird's footnotes in this edition, Map of Isabella Bird's Journeys through Japan Endpapers, The Original Work, UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN, AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR INCLUDING VISITS TO THE ABORIGINES OF YEZO AND THE SHRINE OF NIKKÓ, BY ISABELLA L. BIRD.
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