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Isabella L. Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, published in book form in 1880 from her 1878 travels

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Travel, Japan, landscape, endurance, observation, enjoyment and nineteenth-century cultural encounter.

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I should like to have detained each hour as it passed. It was thorough enjoyment.

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“I should like to have detained each hour as it passed. It was thorough enjoyment.”

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Voice: Authorial / signed preface voice · Isabella L. Bird (travel-letter narrator)

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Bird describes a travel interval so pleasurable that she wishes she could slow its passing and remain inside the experience longer.

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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, represented by Project Gutenberg #2184. The sentence belongs to Bird’s first-person travel-letter narration and records her own enjoyment during the journey; nineteenth-century travel and cultural observations elsewhere in the work remain historical testimony.

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