Travellers Tales Of Old Japan

Author : Compiled by Michael Wise
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814677329
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travellers’ Tales of Old Japan written by Compiled by Michael Wise and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travellers in search of the unexpected found it in Old Japan. Here was a strange land indeed, where women blackened their teeth, men wore tattoos in lieu of clothing, and the whole family bathed together “with as much freedom as a flock of ducks”. Visitors came in thousands and eagerly put pen to paper, commenting on everything Japanese, from curios to coolies, sake to samurai, etiquette to earthquakes. They left behind—in letters, diaries and memoirs—personal impressions of Old Japan, sometimes as revealing of the writers themselves as the country they came to visit. This book features 74 of these traveller’s tales—many of them funny, others serious, but all a pleasure to read

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Author : Compiled by Michael Wise
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814677302
Total Pages : 277 pages
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Download or read book Travellers’ Tales of Old Singapore written by Compiled by Michael Wise and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very beginning, Singapore’s promise of adventure and romance lured visitors to her shores. Travellers came from everywhere and found in Singapore so much to amaze and amuse, so much to write home about. The tales selected for this collection take the reader back to the early days of Singapore when pirates roamed the seas and tigers ate Chinamen for breakfast. It was an era of rickshaws and gharries, of pepper and gambier plantations, of secret societies and opium dens. Through the eyes of more than 60 visitors are seen glimpses of a place, a time and a way of life that is very different from today’s. First published in 1985, this classic volume is bound to entertain and inform a whole new generation of readers

Author : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale
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Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald W. George
Publisher : Travelers' Tales Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781932361254
Total Pages : 411 pages
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Download or read book Travelers' Tales Japan written by Donald W. George and published by Travelers' Tales Guides. This book was released on 2005 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about Japan that so beguiles foreigners? It is a small country and yet an economic powerhouse, a land of great natural beauty -- from green-cloaked mountains to glistening rice paddies -- a place of intricate arts and crafts and amazing cuisine, and home to a people whose kindness and sensitivity surprise westerners at each turn. It is no wonder that Japan simultaneously astonishes, delights, and frustrates travelers, and the diverse tales in this book reveal the nation in all its contradictions: a place of tranquil temples and high-tech toilets, exquisite ancient inns and lurid love hotels, where electric baths sit beside indoor ski slopes, and cherry blossoms fall on kindly grandmothers, cynical salarymen, wise monks, and wild lovers alike. Gathered in this collection are pieces by several notable authors, each offering anecdotes that tell of encounters to be had or avoided, each with uncommon insight to enrich the traveler's experience.

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Publisher : In Print Publishing (UK)
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Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Travellers' Tales of Old Hong Kong and the South China Coast written by and published by In Print Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9789814794411
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book Traveller's Tales of Old Singapore written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lord Redesdale
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Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Lord Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiled from official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travellers. Of the inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, their superstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move-all these are as yet mysteries. Nor is this to be wondered at. The first Western men who came in contact with Japan-I am speaking not of the old Dutch and Portuguese traders and priests, but of the diplomatists and merchants of eleven years ago-met with a cold reception. Above all things, the native Government threw obstacles in the way of any inquiry into their language, literature, and history.

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Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Tales of Old Japan written by Lord Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiled from official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travellers. Of the inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, their superstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move-all these are as yet mysteries. Nor is this to be wondered at. The first Western men who came in contact with Japan-I am speaking not of the old Dutch and Portuguese traders and priests, but of the diplomatists and merchants of eleven years ago-met with a cold reception. Above all things, the native Government threw obstacles in the way of any inquiry into their language, literature, and history.

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Total Pages : 413 pages
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Download or read book Tales of Old Japan Illustrated written by Lord Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Old Japan (1871) is an anthology of short stories compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on various aspects of Japanese life before the Meiji Restoration. The book, which was written in 1871, forms an introduction to Japanese literature and culture, both through the stories, all adapted from Japanese sources, and Mitford's supplementary notes.