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Author Kanasaka, Kiyonori

Title Life of Nobuko: Words, Works and Pictures of an Ordinary but Remarkable Japanese Woman, 1946-2015
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press (Bibliovault) : Renaissance Books, 2022

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Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Organization of captions and photographic credits -- Part I : The Life of Nobuko in Photographs -- Part II : Works by Nobuko -- Part III : Nobuko's Essays -- Part IV : Remembrance -- Postscript
Summary Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japan's leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird. He has published extensively in Japanese on the subject, including a full annotated translation of the original two-volume edition of Unbeaten Tracks. He is known worldwide for his 'Twin Time Travel' photographic exhibition, shown in many countries - presenting Bird's descriptions of what she wrote about in her books in juxtaposition with illustrations of the present
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Subject Kanasaka, Nobuko, 1946-2015
Biography: general.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.
Biography: adventurers and explorers.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781898823896
1898823898