Unbeaten Tracks in Japan : : Revisiting Isabella Bird / / Kiyonori Kanasaka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Kanasaka, Kiyonori,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- THE KANASAKA COMMENTARIES -- Preface -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- 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 NIKKÔ -- 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 (continued) -- Letter XI -- Letter XII -- Letter XII(concluded) -- Letter XIII -- Letter XIV -- Letter XV -- Letter XVI -- Letter XVII -- Letter XVIII -- Letter XIX -- Letter XX -- Letter XX(Continued) -- 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 -- Letter XXXIII -- Letter XXXIV -- Letter XXXV -- Letter XXXV (continued) -- Letter XXXVI -- Letter XXXVI (contents) -- Letter XXXVII -- Letter XXXVII (Continued) -- Letter XXXVII (continued) -- Letter XXXVIII -- Letter XXXIX -- Letter XXXIX (continued) -- Letter XL -- Letter XL (continued) -- Letter XLI -- Letter XLII -- Letter XLIII -- Letter XLIV -- Index