Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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About This Book
This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bird's sex but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hardscrabble lives.
Chapters (66)(click to expand)
- UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- LETTER I.
- LETTER II.
- LETTER III.
- LETTER IV.
- LETTER V.
- LETTER VI.
- LETTER VI.—(Continued.)
- LETTER VII.
- LETTER VIII.
- LETTER IX.
- LETTER X.
- LETTER X.—(Continued.)
- LETTER X.—(Completed.)
- LETTER XI.
- LETTER XII.
- LETTER XII.—(Concluded.)
- LETTER XIII.
- LETTER XIV.
- LETTER XV.
- Itinerary of Route from Nikkô to Niigata (Kinugawa Route.)
- LETTER XVI.
- LETTER XVII
- LETTER XVIII.
- LETTER XIX.
- LETTER XX.
- LETTER XX.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XX.—(Concluded.)
- LETTER XXI.
- LETTER XXII.
- LETTER XXIII.
- LETTER XXIV.
- LETTER XXV.
- LETTER XXVI.
- LETTER XXVII.
- LETTER XXVIII.
- LETTER XXVIII.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXIX.
- LETTER XXX.
- LETTER XXXI.
- LETTER XXXII.
- Itinerary of Route from Niigata to Aomori.
- LETTER XXXIII.
- LETTER XXXIV.
- LETTER XXXV. [216]
- LETTER XXXV.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXXVI.
- LETTER XXXVI.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXXVII.
- LETTER XXXVII.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXXVII.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXXVIII.
- LETTER XXXIX.
- LETTER XXXIX.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XL.
- LETTER XL.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XLI.
- Itinerary of Tour in Yezo.
- LETTER XLII.
- LETTER XLIII.
- LETTER XLIV.
- INDEX.
- FOOTNOTES.
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