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Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was published in 1880 and
recounts her travels in the Far East from 1876. Bird was
recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her
physical and nervous difficulties. She toured the United States and
Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Sandwich Islands, before
travelling to the Far East in order to strengthen herself to marry
Dr John Bishop and live in Edinburgh. Created out of the letters
Bird wrote home, primarily to her sister, Volume 1 recounts her
experiences as a solo woman traveller living among the Japanese in
Yokohama and Niigata. It includes descriptions of clothing, food
and drink, education, housing, theatre, women's lifestyles,
religion, plant life, medicine, shopping and other day-to-day
activities, as well as the vicissitudes and excitement of the
conditions and process of travelling, including by boat and
pack-horse.
Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was published in 1880 and
recounts her travels in the Far East, begun four years earlier.
Bird was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure
for her physical and nervous difficulties. She toured the United
States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Sandwich Islands,
before travelling to the Far East in order to strengthen herself to
marry Dr John Bishop and live in Edinburgh. Based on the letters
Bird wrote home, primarily to her sister, Volume 2 covers her
journeys to Yeso, Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Ise Shrines, and includes
her experiences of staying with the Hairy Ainu, the indigenous
inhabitants of northern Japan. As with the first volume, it
includes much detail of the lifestyles, customs, and habits of the
people she encountered, as well as a chapter on Japanese public
affairs.
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