Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108014631
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was published in 1880 and recounts her travels in the Far East, begun four years earlier. Bird was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. She toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Sandwich Islands, before travelling to the Far East in order to strengthen herself to marry Dr John Bishop and live in Edinburgh. Based on the letters Bird wrote home, primarily to her sister, Volume 2 covers her journeys to Yeso, Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Ise Shrines, and includes her experiences of staying with the Hairy Ainu, the indigenous inhabitants of northern Japan. As with the first volume, it includes much detail of the lifestyles, customs, and habits of the people she encountered, as well as a chapter on Japanese public affairs.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Author: Isabella L. Bird
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120589
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
The intrepid explorer recounts her 1878 excursion into the back country of the Far East. Bird describes the vicissitudes of her journey — the difficulties as well as the excitement and rewards.

The Stone Thrower

Author: Jael Ealey Richardson
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554987539
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
The African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all odds, he became an incredible quarterback. But despite his unbeaten record in high school and university, he would never play professional football in the United States. Chuck Ealey grew up poor in a racially segregated community that was divided from the rest of town by a set of train tracks, but his mother assured him that he wouldn’t stay in Portsmouth forever. Education was the way out, and a football scholarship was the way to pay for that education. So despite the racist taunts he faced at all the games he played in high school, Chuck maintained a remarkable level of dedication and determination. And when discrimination followed him to university and beyond, Chuck Ealey remained undefeated. This inspirational story is told by Chuck Ealey’s daughter, author and educator Jael Richardson, with striking and powerful illustrations by award-winning illustrator Matt James.

The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

Author: Xavier Guégan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137304154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Estes Park (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.

Letters to Henrietta

Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.

Prose by Victorian Women

Author: Andrea Broomfield
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131777759X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 746

Book Description
First published in 1996. The first modern collection of its kind, this anthology includes unabridged essays written by 19th century Britain’s' most eminent women intellectuals- the female counter-parts to the Victorian men of letters. Writing on topics ranging from animal rights and trade unions to aesthetic theory and literary criticism, the women whose rare and hard-to-find woks are presented in this anthology include Mary Russell Mitford, George Eliot, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Isabella Bird Bishop, Anne Thackerary Ritchie, Sarah Grand and others.

Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan

Author: Lorraine Sterry
Publisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004213090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
This volume complements other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan which is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing. It examines the narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, when Japan was first opened to the West, and became a highly desirable travel destination for decades thereafter. Many women travelled in this period, and although most left no record of their journeys, enough did to form a discrete body of literature spanning more than fifty years – from the end of the feudal Tokugawa era to the rise of Meiji Japan as a world power. Their narratives about Japan occupy a culturally significant place, not only in the genre of Victorian female travel writing, but in Victorian travel writing per se. The writers who are the subject of this book are divided into two groups: those who were ‘travellers-by-intent’, namely, Anna D’A, Alice Frere, Annie Brassey, Isabella Bird and Marie Stopes, and those who ‘travelled-by-default’ as the wives of diplomats, namely Mrs Pemberton Hodgson, Mrs Hugh Fraser and Baroness Albert d’Anethan.

Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004348956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.