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Author Kanasaka, Kiyonori, 1947- author.

Title Isabella Bird and Japan : a reassessment / by Kiyonori Kanasaka ; translated by Nicholas Pertwee
Edition English edition
Published Folkstone, Kent, UK : Renaissance Books, 2017

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Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE JAPANESE EDITION -- Maps of Isabella Bird's Travels in Japan (Figs 1-3) -- Chapter 1 INTERPRETING BIRD'S TRAVELS AND UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN -- Chapter 2 ISABELLA BIRD -- A LIFE OF TRAVEL -- Chapter 3 ASPECTS OF BIRD'S 1878 VISIT TO JAPAN -- Chapter 4 ACCESS AND SUPPORT IN JAPAN -- Chapter 5 THE LEGACY OF BIRD'S STAY IN JAPAN -- ENDNOTES -- POSTSCRIPT TO THE JAPANESE EDITION -- CHRONOLOGY: THE LIFE OF ISABELLA BIRD -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- INDEX
Summary Bird's visit to Japan is placed in the context of her worldwide life of travel and introduces the woman herself. With detailed maps, it offers a highly illuminating view of Japan and its people in the early years of the 'New Japan' following the Meiji Restoration; a valuable new critique on what is often considered as Bird's most important work
Analysis ainu
insight into japan
japnese culture
victorian women travellers
Subject Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 -- Travel -- Japan
SUBJECT Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 -- Travel -- Japan
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 fast
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Adventurers & Explorers.
Travel
Japan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781898823520
1898823529