Samurai Trails
Kirtland, Lucian Swift / De Lange, William
Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index&hellip, and beautiful layout to boot."
Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881-1965), walking Japan's ancient Tôkaidô and Nakasendô highroads on the eve of the First World War, is still very much the late-nineteenth century traveler, pith helmet and all. And while, like so many of his contemporaries, he is prone to the unabashed Orientalism o...