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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé [Two Volumes in One]
by BIRD, Isabella L
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing, with no date printed on the title pages. Two volumes bound as one (presumably as issued?). Octavo. 407, 392pp. Illustrated, including a folding map bound in the rear. Bound into contemporary half polished leather and marbled paper over boards, with marbled endleaves and marbled page edges. Shoulders and board edges heavily rubbed with a bit of loss at the spine ends, very good and sound; the text and map are bright and fine.
Synopsis
Isabella L. Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer, and a natural historian. From Bird's preface in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan:This is not a "Book on Japan," but a narrative of travels in Japan, and an attempt to contribute something to the sum of knowledge of the present condition of the country, and it was not till I had travelled for some months in the interior of the main island and in Yezo that I decided that my materials were novel enough to render the contribution worth making. From Nikko northwards my route was altogether off the beaten track, and had never been traversed in its entirety by any European. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact. As a lady travelling alone, and the first European lady who had been seen in several districts through which my route lay, my experiences differed more or less widely from those of preceding travellers; and I am able to offer a fuller account of the aborigines of Yezo, obtained by actual acquaintance with them, than has hitherto been given. These are my chief reasons for offering this volume to the public.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 571177
- Title
- Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé [Two Volumes in One]
- Author
- BIRD, Isabella L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- Travel/GeographicNon-fiction, AsianInterest, Women
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