This is a fascinating book - one of the few foreign eyewitness accounts of Korea before the Japanese annexation. It is well written, with lots of human detail.

Nov 6, 2022 · "Korea and Her Neighbors" by Isabella L. Bird is a narrative of travel written in the late 19th century. The book documents Bird's extensive ...

A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country. By. Isabella Bird Bishop, F.R.G.S..

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Nov 20, 2023 · This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

Aug 4, 2008 · A narrative of travel, with an account of the recent vicissitudes and present position of the country. 480 p. 21 cm

KOREA AND HER NEIGHBOURS is a book that is eerily prescient about Korea. It is also provides glimpses of Korea as it was before Japan's Occupation.

Isabella Bird was an Englishwoman who had the wealth and the time to travel the world. Among the places she visited war Korea during the late Joseon dynasty, ...

Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop, 1831-1904) was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties.