Description. First published in 2003. Isabella Bird's account of her journeys in Korea in 1898 represents one of the very rare accounts of that country in the latter part of the nineteenth century. At that time Korea was virtually a forbidden land and had only been open to foreigners for about ten years.
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It gives a nice picture of the international relations among China, Japan, Russia and Korea. It gives a lively picture about the feud within the Korean court, ...
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Korea and Her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country.
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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.
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Korea and Her Neighbors: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country, Volume 2 · Isabella Lucy Bird.
12 Korea and Her Neighbors patient with what may be to them “twice-told ... plot, that other than Korean hands took the lives that were taken, that the ...
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This book is the first work that keenly analyzes and criticizes the modern Korean situation and informs the west of the beauty and history of Korean mountains ...
Jun 21, 2021 · A fascinating account of Korea at a time when the country was not only torn between tradition and modernisation, but also found herself a pawn of Japan, China, ...