Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
by Isabella Bird

From the Travelers' Tales series.

This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set off alone to explore the interior of Japan. At this time, women did not go exploring alone and Japan was still a mysterious country to Westerners. Bird must have presented a fearsome sight to Japanese villagers when she came into view clad in American mountain dress and boots. Many of the Japanese she met had never seen a Caucasian before, let alone a woman traveling solo. The Japan that Bird describes is not the sentimental world of a Madame Butterfly, festooned with cherry blossoms. She describes real people in back country districts where peasant life in Japan had never been easy. The observant Bird provides us with a travel narrative that is an incredible testament to one woman's determination to discover an old culture and introduce it to the rest of the world.

TT1570    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan                              $14.95

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