Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan was published in 1880 and recounts her travels in the Far East from 1876. Bird was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. She toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Sandwich Islands, before travelling to the Far East in order to strengthen herself t...(展开全部)

伊莎貝拉·博兒 Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904)，英國女性冒險家、遊記作家。皇家蘇格蘭地理學會的第一位女性成員，並入選英國皇家攝影學會成員。從一八五四年到一九○一年，她造訪的國家包括加拿大、澳洲、夏威夷、科羅拉多、日本、馬來西亞、印 度、中東、中國、韓國和摩洛哥，並將她豐富的旅遊經驗出版成書。著有《山旅書札》、《朝鮮紀行》、《中國奧地紀行》等。 譯者 吳煒聲，美國蒙特瑞國際研究學院中英口筆譯組碩士。現為國立清華大學與交通大學外國語文學系兼任講師及自由譯者。致力於英語教學與中英翻譯研究，二○○九年起建立「天地無用」英語學習部落格，將個人多年的學習英語心得逐一分享給廣大網友參考，以期拋磚引玉，吸引更多華人放棄教條式或填鴨式的英語學習法，以正確的方式逐步邁進多彩多姿的英語殿堂。天地無用 英語學習部落格：english.ecomi...(展开全部)

A cult classic with an ever-growing audience, Tracks is the brilliantly written and frequently hilarious account of a young woman's odyssey through the deserts of Australia, with no one but her dog and four camels as companions. Davidson emerges as a heroine who combines extraordinary courage with exquisite sensitivity.

Made in Japan -- Made in Japan—these three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including perfume ads, art deco matchboxes, robot toys, action movie posters, Noh masks, kimono pat...(展开全部)

Nippon nests. Today's most exceptional Japanese homes. So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's hard to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding new ways to refurbish and take inspiration from the ways of old. Whether it's a pristinely preserved traditional house or a cutting-edge apartment, the best Japanese homes s...(展开全部)

This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up the...(展开全部)

美国驻日本前大使格鲁的驻日本工作日记。