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Life of Nobuko

Words, Works and Pictures of an Ordinary but Remarkable Japanese Woman, 1946-2015

Kiyonori Kanasaka editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Global Books

Published:14th Feb '22

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Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japan’s leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird. He has published extensively in Japanese on the subject, including a full annotated translation of the original two-volume edition of Unbeaten Tracks. He is known worldwide for his ‘Twin Time Travel’ photographic exhibition, shown in many countries – presenting Bird’s descriptions of what she wrote about in her books in juxtaposition with illustrations of the present.

ISBN: 9781898823889

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300 pages