Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

by Isabella L. Bird

*Non-fictionTravel & Geography English ⏱ 12:56:25

Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months sojourn in Japan in 1878. Her travels there took her from Edo (now called Tokyo) through the interior - where she was often the first foreigner the locals had met - to Niigata, and from there to Aomori. There she crossed over to Yezo (Hokkaido), and her account on the life of the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, provides an interesting glimpse of days long past. (Summary by Availle)

Chapters

1 00 - Preface
2 00 - Preface
3 01 Letter I
4 01 - Letter I
5 02 - Letter II
6 02 - Letter II
7 03 Letter III
8 03 - Letter III
9 04 - Letter IV
10 04 - Letter IV
11 05 - Letter V
12 05 - Letter V
13 06 - Letter VI part 1
14 06 - Letter VI part 1
15 07 - Letter VI part 2
16 07 - Letter VI part 2
17 08 - Letter VII
18 08 - Letter VII
19 09 - Letter VIII
20 09 - Letter VIII
21 10 - Letter IX
22 10 - Letter IX
23 11 - Letter X part 1
24 11 - Letter X part 1
25 12 - Letter X part 2
26 12 - Letter X part 2
27 13 - Letter X part 3
28 13 - Letter X part 3
29 14 - Letter XI
30 14 - Letter XI
31 15 - Letter XII part 1
32 15 - Letter XII part 1
33 16 - Letter XII part 2
34 16 - Letter XII part 2
35 17 - Letter XIII
36 17 - Letter XIII
37 18 - Letter XIV
38 18 - Letter XIV
39 19 - Letter XV
40 19 - Letter XV
41 20 - Letter XVI
42 20 - Letter XVI
43 21 - Letter XVII
44 21 - Letter XVII
45 22 - Letter XVIII
46 22 - Letter XVIII
47 23 - Letter XIX
48 23 - Letter XIX
49 24 - Letter XX part 1
50 24 - Letter XX part 1
51 25 - Letter XX part 2
52 25 - Letter XX part 2
53 26 - Letter XX part 3
54 26 - Letter XX part 3
55 27 - Letter XXI
56 27 - Letter XXI
57 28 - Letter XXII
58 28 - Letter XXII
59 29 - Letter XXIII
60 29 - Letter XXIII
61 30 - Letter XXIV
62 30 - Letter XXIV
63 31 - Letter XXV
64 31 - Letter XXV
65 32 - Letter XXVI
66 32 - Letter XXVI
67 33 - Letter XXVII
68 33 - Letter XXVII
69 34 - Letter XXVIII part 1
70 34 - Letter XXVIII part 1
71 35 - Letter XXVIII part 2
72 35 - Letter XXVIII part 2
73 36 - Letter XXIX
74 36 - Letter XXIX
75 37 - Letter XXX
76 37 - Letter XXX
77 38 - Letter XXXI
78 38 - Letter XXXI
79 39 - Letter XXXII
80 39 - Letter XXXII
81 40 - Letter XXXIII
82 40 - Letter XXXIII
83 41 - Letter XXXIV
84 41 - Letter XXXIV
85 42 - Letter XXXV part 1
86 42 - Letter XXXV part 1
87 43 - Letter XXXV part 2
88 43 - Letter XXXV part 2
89 44 - Letter XXXVI part 1
90 44 - Letter XXXVI part 1
91 45 - Letter XXXVI part 2
92 45 - Letter XXXVI part 2
93 46 - Letter XXXVII part 1
94 46 - Letter XXXVII part 1
95 47 - Letter XXXVII part 2
96 47 - Letter XXXVII part 2
97 48 - Letter XXXVII part 3
98 48 - Letter XXXVII part 3
99 49 - Letter XXXVIII
100 49 - Letter XXXVIII
101 50 - Letter XXXIX part 1
102 50 - Letter XXXIX part 1
103 51 - Letter XXXIX part 2
104 51 - Letter XXXIX part 2
105 52 - Letter XL part 1
106 52 - Letter XL part 1
107 53 - Letter XL part 2
108 53 - Letter XL part 2
109 54 - Letter XLI
110 54 - Letter XLI
111 55 - Letter XLII
112 55 - Letter XLII
113 56 - Letter XLIII
114 56 - Letter XLIII
115 57 - Letter XLIV
116 57 - Letter XLIV