Traveling Japan's Deep Interior
Bird, Isabella Lucy / De Lange, William
Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index…and beautiful layout to boot."Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904), the English author, photographer, and explorer, is one of the most intrepid foreigners to have traveled Japan's interior during the late eighteen-seventies, not long after Japan's forced opening to the Western powers.Overcoming her initial fears Bird sets out on a journ...