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Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan is a travel book written by the American businessman, mathematician and astronomer Percival Lowell, first published in 1891.It is dedicated to the British academic and Japanologist Basil Hall Chamberlain.
3. Spent more time in Nikko and Osaka. About 90 miles north of Tokyo, Nikko is a popular day trip, but I wish I had dedicated two full days to exploring the town properly. It's known for both its ...
Pages in category "Travel guide books" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. ... Keeling's Guide to Japan; L. Leigh's travel guides; Let's ...
Meeting with Japan (1960) Heinrich Harrer (1912–2006) Seven Years in Tibet (1952) Ladakh: Gods and Mortals Behind the Himalayas (1980) Return to Tibet (1985) George Woodcock (1912-1995) To the City of the Dead: An Account of Travels in Mexico (1957) Incas and Other Men: Travels in the Andes (1959) Faces of India: A Travel Narrative (1964)
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
It was the first travel guide to show Americans that they could afford to travel in Europe. Frommer returned to the United States and began practicing law. During that time, he continued to write and also began to self-publish guidebooks to additional destinations, including New York, Mexico, Hawaii, Japan and the Caribbean.
Alan Booth (5 December 1946 – 24 January 1993) [1] was an English writer who wrote two books about his journeys on foot through the Japanese countryside. The better-known of the two, The Roads to Sata, published in 1985, is about his travels in 1977 from Cape Sōya, the northern tip of Hokkaidō, to Cape Sata, the southern tip of Kyūshū.