Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

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.