Author: BIRD, ISABELLA L.
Title: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - an Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Ise - Complete in Two Volumes
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Isabella Bird (1831-1904) describes, in the form of letters to her sister, her journey from Tokyo to Hokkaido in 1878. Recounts how she and and an interpreter visited places that few, if any, Westerners had seen before. Records in great detail her responses to Japanese homes, clothing, customs, and natural environment. Includes a long section describing her visits to the Ainu people and many passages describing what seemed to her the extreme poverty of many Japanese outside the major cities." - Wikipedia. xxiv, 407, 392 pp. Index. Glossary of Japanese words for which English equivalents do not exist. Tissue-protected frontispiece in each volume. Occasional black and white illustrations in text. Fold-out map of Japan at back of Vol. I in excellent condition but for one-inch opening. Unmarked with moderate wear to chocolate brown cloth over bevelled boards attractively decorated and lettered in gilt. Floral endpapers. Bindings intact. A quality copy of this marvelous set. ; 8vo. Good .

Keywords: Asia Travel Exploration & Adventure