Rambles in Japan The Land of the Rising Sun

Name: Rambles in Japan The Land of the Rising Sun
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ISBN: 9781108045858

ISBN-10: 1108045855

ISBN-13: 9781108045858

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Authors: Henry Baker Tristram

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Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram (1822-1906), was an early supporter of Darwin's evolutionary theories - in his 1859 paper 'On the Ornithology of North Africa' - who became both a Fellow of the Royal Society and canon residentiary of Durham; he was also the Church Missionary Society's representative in the county for forty years. This 1895 volume, the last of many travel narratives he published, is an account of a sojourn in Japan, visiting his daughter Katherine, then headmistress of the Society's school for girls in Osaka. As well as describing the country's minority Christian communities, Tristram's highly readable narrative covers Japanese customs, industries, shrines and…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



First impressions



Yokohama and Tokio



A visit to Nikko



The Hakone Lake



Nagoya



A second visit to Kioto



Osaka



Shikoku



The Island of Kiushiu



Aso San and the geysers of Yunotan