Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
The principal apartments in all Japanese houses are at the back, looking out on these miniature landscapes... A lake, a rockwork, a bridge, a stone lantern, and a deformed pine, are indispensable; but whenever means and circumstances admit of it, quaintnesses of all kinds are introduced. Small pavilions, retreats for tea-making, reading, sleeping in quiet and coolness, fishing under cover, and drinking saké...¬ -from Letter XVITaking the form of letters to a beloved sister, this chronicle of an 1878 trip to Japan is a classic Victorian travel journal. Isabella Bird was a woman who, she readily admits herself, was ill-suited to the middle…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-59605-689-3
- EAN: 9781596056893
- Produktnummer: 36099522
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.4 cm 654 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 654
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