Virago/Beacon travelers
2 total works
The firsthand account of a British adventuress as she treks though the Japanese outback in 1878, traveling alone among "degenerate" Japanese and "savage" Aino, and recording it all for posterity in this book, a classic of its kind.
Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travelers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. In describing the journey, Isabella provides a rich mix of observations and describes two occasions when she is almost killed by anti-foreign mobs. It many ways, Isabella created the model for travel writing today, and this one of her greatest works.