Author: Isabella L. Bird
Title: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Original publication date: 1880
First words: Eighteen days of unintermitted rolling over "desolate rainy seas" brought the "City of Tokio" early yesterday morning to Cape King, and by noon we were steaming up the Gulf of Yedo, quite near the sho
Last words: The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan--a
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