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"Only strong people should travel in Northern Japan!" wrote Victorian traveler Isabella Bird (to appear on cover) during her thousand-mile 1878 journey from Yokohama to the norther-most island of Hokkaido. She found Ainu tribes, flea-ridden inns, torrential rains, & staring crowds who had never seen a foreigner before. In 1998, her biographer, Evelyn Kaye, set out to follow her footsteps. On trains, buses, bicycles, & cars, she found Ainu tribes reclaiming their heritage, Japanese inns with hot springs, & that Isabella Bird is still remembered! 120 years after her journey, an environmental campaign was created from a comment in Bird's book, three modern memorials to her were erected in Yamagata, her photo hangs on the wall of the oldest hotel in Nikko, & her book is still read in Japanese. This entertaining literary journey shows northern Japan yesterday & today as seen by two adventurous women.Kaye, Evelyn is the author of 'Adventures in Japan A Literary Journey in the Footsteps of a Victorian Lady', published 2000 under ISBN 9781929315000 and ISBN 1929315007.
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