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Unbeaten Tracks In Japan
de Bird, Isabella L
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Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, (1992). Collector's Edition. Fine in full dark brown leather covered boards with five compartments on the spine with gilt text and decorations. All edges of the text block are gilt. The end sheets are of silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. "An account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Srines of Nikko and Ise with maps and Illustrations." (from the title page of volume I) The two original volumes are contained within one in this edition. Volume I consists of 407 pages. Volume II contains 392 pages including an index and appendices. Illustrated with two frontispieces, drawings and maps. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of Travel Classics which is no longer published and sold by The Easton Press. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.
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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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- Town's End Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- TB29294
- Título
- Unbeaten Tracks In Japan
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- Bird, Isabella L
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- Usado
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- Collector's Edition
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- The Easton Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Norwalk, Conn.
- Fecha de publicación
- (1992)
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