Synopsis
'There was never anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird', wrote the Spectator in 1879. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), daughter of a clergyman, who did not begin to travel or write until her life was half over, visited japan in 1878.
She found 'its interest exceeded my largest expectations'. It was the time of the brilliant and dynamic Meiji Era, when the country was transformed from a traditionally feudal to an industrialised modern society. But it was the feudal, remote Japan that appealed to Isabella's unconventional and romantic temperament, and she soon left the civilised treaty ports for the real Japan of the northern hinterlands.
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* With a map showing Isabella fs route.
* Including a new foreword: Reading between the Lines.
From the Author
PREFACE (BY THE AUTHOR; ABRIDGED)
Having been recommended to leave home, in April 1878, in order to recruit my health by means which had proved serviceable before, I decided to visit Japan, attracted less by the reputed excellence of its climate than by the certainty that it possessed, in an especial degree, those sources of novel and sustained interest which conduce so essentially to the enjoyment and restoration of a solitary health-seeker. The climate disappointed me, but, though I ` found the country a study rather than a rapture, its interest exceeded my largest expectations.
This is not a gBook on Japan, h 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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Isabella L. Bird
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