Author: isabellalucybird

The daughter of a country parson, Isabella Bird was advised to travel for her health. Bird’s compliance with her doctor’s orders took her to the wildest regions of the American West, Malaysia, Kurdistan, Persia, the Moroccan desert, and China, among other places. One of nine popular accounts of her adventures around the world, “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan “traces the intrepid Victorian explorer’s … 1878 excursion into the back country of the Far East. Japan had just opened its doors to the West within the past decade, and Bird traversed regions unknown to many of the island nation’s inhabitants. Traveling more…