Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels on horseback in the interior :including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the s
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
EN NWISBN: 9781540507594 bzw. 1540507599, in Englisch, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, neu.
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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 Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hardscrabble lives. 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 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866).Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora. Bird moved several times during her childhood. In 1832, Reverend Bird was appointed curate in Maidenhead, where Isabella's brother Edward was born and died in his first year. Because of her father's ill health Bird's family moved again in 1834 to Tattenhall in Cheshire, a living presented to him by his cousin Dr John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester, where in the same year Bird's sister, Henrietta, was born. Bird was outspoken from an early age. When six years old, she confronted the local MP for South Cheshire: "Sir Malpas de Grey Tatton Egerton, while he was campaigning, asking him "did you tell my father my sister was so pretty because you wanted his vote?"Edward Bird's controversial views against Sunday labour caused his congregation to dwindle, and in 1842 he requested a transfer to St. Thomas's in Birmingham. Here again objections were raised which culminated in the minister's being pelted "with stones, mud, and insults".In 1848, the family moved again and, after spending some time.
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 Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hardscrabble lives. 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 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866).Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora. Bird moved several times during her childhood. In 1832, Reverend Bird was appointed curate in Maidenhead, where Isabella's brother Edward was born and died in his first year. Because of her father's ill health Bird's family moved again in 1834 to Tattenhall in Cheshire, a living presented to him by his cousin Dr John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester, where in the same year Bird's sister, Henrietta, was born. Bird was outspoken from an early age. When six years old, she confronted the local MP for South Cheshire: "Sir Malpas de Grey Tatton Egerton, while he was campaigning, asking him "did you tell my father my sister was so pretty because you wanted his vote?"Edward Bird's controversial views against Sunday labour caused his congregation to dwindle, and in 1842 he requested a transfer to St. Thomas's in Birmingham. Here again objections were raised which culminated in the minister's being pelted "with stones, mud, and insults".In 1848, the family moved again and, after spending some time.
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels on horseback in the interior :including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the s
EN PB NWISBN: 9781540507594 bzw. 1540507599, Band: 2, in Englisch, CreateSpace Publishing, Taschenbuch, neu.
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Unbeaten-tracks-in-Japan~~Isabella-L-Bird, 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: By: Isabella L. Bird (VOLUME II) Japan -- Description and travel,with maps and illustrations, 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: By: Isabella L. Bird (VOLUME II) Japan -- Description and travel,with maps and illustrations, Paperback.
Unbeaten-tracks-in-Japan~~Isabella-L-Bird, 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: By: Isabella L. Bird (VOLUME II) Japan -- Description and travel,with maps and illustrations, 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: By: Isabella L. Bird (VOLUME II) Japan -- Description and travel,with maps and illustrations, Paperback.
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