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Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters, others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. This story is developed around a number of women who wrote in an entertaining and intelligent fashion about their Indian experiences.

It was the Emperor Meiji's restoration to the throne in 1868 that ushered in the long period of 'Enlightened Government' which saw thousands of Westerners crossing Japan's threshold to witness the country's modernisation. This title describes a country hurtling through centuries of change in just a few decades.

Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. Her accounts of her experiences became best-selling books and established for Isabella Bird a reputation as one of the great travel writers of her day. This book tells the story of Bird.

Nineteenth-century Japan was pristine, inviolate and feudal, ruled by the legendary Shogun and the sacred puppet - Emperor, the Mikado. Foreigners were despised and feared as 'hairy barbarians', for more than two hundred years Dutch merchants had been the only settlers, interned on the tiny island of Decima.