New Abridged Edition with Notes and Commentaries by Kiyonori Kanasaka
Renaissance Books GBP55.00 (incl. tax) ISBN 978-1898823797
Isabella Bird’s best-selling book on Japan is republished but with a difference: for the first time, it is now fully annotated with supporting commentaries, providing the twenty-first century reader with an enhanced informed view of the new ‘modern Japan’ as Bird experienced it in 1878. The commentaries and notes were written by JBS Member Kiyonori Kanasaka (Professor Emeritus of Kyoto Univ.), Japan’s leading expert on Isabella Bird.
Hard Cover, 425 pages, English

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