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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878 (Paperback)
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878 (Paperback)
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Isabella L. Bird was one of the most famous British travelers of
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her destinations
included Canada, the United States (the Rocky Mountains), Hawaii,
Japan, Korea, Persia, Kurdistan, China, and Morocco. She is
particularly known for her intrepidness and lively writing
style.Written in the form of letters to her sister, her account of
her trip to Japan in 1878 is viewed as a classic of travel writing
and a valuable account of little documented areas of Japan in that
era. Rather than stay in the Tokyo region or travel south to Kyoto,
the mecca of Japanese civilization, she chose to travel north
through the most arduously mountainous areas and eventually visit
the island of Hokkaido, where lived the indigenous Ainu. With the
Ainu, Isabella took an ambiguous stance: she admired them
tremendously on the one hand but could not, on the other, find it
in her heart to remove them from the category of savages.The
Foreword, "Reading between the Lines," calls into question the
accuracy of Isabella's observations of the Japanese and Ainu and
casts doubt on the judgments she formed. Readers are urged to read
the book actively, rather than passively, if they are not to be led
astray by Isabella's biases and eccentricities.
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