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Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Isabella Bird's 1878 expedition through Japan, chronicled in 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,' immerses readers in an extraordinary odyssey across the seldom-explored territories of Japan's remote northern and central regions. Breaking away from conventional travel narratives, Bird adopts an unconventional prose style, crafting a captivating tale of her off-the-beaten-path escapades.
Rather than confining herself to the urban bustle, Bird ventures deep...
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin co
Pub. Date
[1922]
Language
English
Description
This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere else, the author most vividly captured a place that so affected him that he stayed for the rest of his life. The modern reader can still, through these pages,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today—not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha International
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Tokyo, 1985. The world's first megacity is at the height of its dynamism.
Forty years ago, a frenzy of creativity galvanised the Japanese capital. From fashion to movies to electronics, Tokyo was forging the future. Factories run by robots, the world's first high-speed trains, apartment blocks built from shipping containers, love hotels modelled on Bavarian castles...
In the thick of it, a young British teacher gazed around and asked questions. Why...
8) Japan
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A book for young readers about the history and culture of Japan"--
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