Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko and Isé.
London: John Murray, 1880. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 81; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 35. The extraordinary account by Isabella Bird (1831-1904) of her first trip to Japan, which she undertook alone in 1878. Upon arrival she hired a servant to accompany her and purchased a......