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Alone with the Hairy Ainu - Or, 3800 Miles on a Pack Saddle in Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands (Paperback)
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Alone with the Hairy Ainu - Or, 3800 Miles on a Pack Saddle in Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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A. H. Savage Landor (1867 1925), the grandson of the author Walter
Savage Landor (1775 1864), was born and educated in Florence. He
abandoned his painting studies in Paris to travel around the world,
and visited Asia, the Middle East and South America, supporting
himself as he went by painting portraits of people he encountered.
Landor became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892,
and a Member of the Royal Institution in 1897. This volume, first
published in 1893, deals with his adventurous experiences among the
indigenous Ainu, the 'hairy men' who lived in the northern 'home
islands' of Japan and in Sakhalin, the island whose possession was
disputed by Japan and Russia for two hundred years. Landor insisted
on 'doing in Ainuland as the Ainu does'. He describes his journey
through the Ainu territory and gives a detailed and
ethnographically aware account of its people and their culture.
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