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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bird's sex but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of... Read Full Overview

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - An Account of Travels in the Interior, including Visit to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Ise, 3rd ed., in Two Volumes - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature... Read Full Overview

Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar.She was the first woman to be elected... Read Full Overview