Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, credited to Isabella L. Bird, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird. Read by Availle. Isabella Lucy Bird (1831 – 1904) was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months sojourn in Japan in 1878. Her travels there took her from Edo (now called Tokyo) through the interior - where she was often the first foreigner the locals had met - to Niigata, and from there to Aomori. There she crossed over to Yezo (Hokkaido), and her account on the life of the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, provides an interesting glimpse of days long past. (Summary by Availle)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Author credits: Isabella L. Bird
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Combined MP3 track duration: 12:56:55

Catalogue topics

• travel
• memoirs
• Japan
• Asia
• History
• Nature

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 00 - Preface — 6:31
2. 01 - Letter I — 13:45
3. 02 - Letter II — 3:10
4. 03 - Letter III — 12:58
5. 04 - Letter IV — 13:47
6. 05 - Letter V — 28:00
7. 06 - Letter VI part 1 — 24:30
8. 07 - Letter VI part 2 — 21:19
9. 08 - Letter VII — 5:43
10. 09 - Letter VIII — 20:47
11. 10 - Letter IX — 6:46
12. 11 - Letter X part 1 — 17:18
13. 12 - Letter X part 2 — 8:56
14. 13 - Letter X part 3 — 8:09
15. 14 - Letter XI — 31:31
16. 15 - Letter XII part 1 — 10:36
17. 16 - Letter XII part 2 — 5:30
18. 17 - Letter XIII — 18:47
19. 18 - Letter XIV — 6:53
20. 19 - Letter XV — 10:38
21. 20 - Letter XVI — 13:33
22. 21 - Letter XVII — 20:50
23. 22 - Letter XVIII — 21:03
24. 23 - Letter XIX — 16:58

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