Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

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04/07/23

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791m

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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Isabella Lucy Bird 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.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:06:31) Chapter 01

(00:20:16) Chapter 02

(00:23:26) Chapter 03

(00:36:24) Chapter 04

(00:50:11) Chapter 05

(01:18:11) Chapter 06

(01:42:41) Chapter 07

(02:04:00) Chapter 08

(02:09:43) Chapter 09

(02:30:30) Chapter 10

(02:37:16) Chapter 11

(02:54:34) Chapter 12

(03:03:30) Chapter 13

(03:11:39) Chapter 14

(03:43:10) Chapter 15

(03:53:46) Chapter 16

(03:59:16) Chapter 17

(04:18:03) Chapter 18

(04:24:56) Chapter 19

(04:35:34) Chapter 20

(04:49:07) Chapter 21

(05:09:57) Chapter 22

(05:31:00) Chapter 23

(05:47:58) Chapter 24

(05:54:26) Chapter 25

(06:09:43) Chapter 26

(06:15:18) Chapter 27

(06:25:54) Chapter 28

(06:30:14) Chapter 29

(06:40:22) Chapter 30

(06:52:01) Chapter 31

(07:03:58) Chapter 32

(07:23:38) Chapter 33

(07:34:09) Chapter 34

(07:50:22) Chapter 35

(07:58:23) Chapter 36

(08:04:34) Chapter 37

(08:10:30) Chapter 38

(08:16:06) Chapter 39

(08:31:40) Chapter 40

(08:36:06) Chapter 41

(08:39:51) Chapter 42

(09:16:59) Chapter 43

(09:23:11) Chapter 44

(09:43:13) Chapter 45

(10:06:34) Chapter 46

(10:22:28) Chapter 47

(10:44:51) Chapter 48

(11:14:51) Chapter 49

(11:22:52) Chapter 50

(11:41:17) Chapter 51

(11:48:05) Chapter 52

(12:05:02) Chapter 53

(12:19:10) Chapter 54

(12:41:32) Chapter 55

(12:45:26) Chapter 56

(12:49:24) Chapter 57

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Genre: drama

Set in late 19th-century Australia, The Getting of Wisdom follows Laura Rambotham, a bright, imaginative country girl sent away from home to attend a strict Melbourne ladies' college. Thrown into an unfamiliar world of rules, gossip, and social hierarchies, Laura is determined to shine - academically, socially, and in the eyes of her teachers. But her quick mind and fierce independence collide with the school's expectations of obedience and ladylike conformity. As she tries to win friends and carve out a place among classmates who can be both charming and cruel, Laura experiments with performance, reinvention, and small acts of rebellion. Her hunger for admiration and belonging leads her into choices that test her honesty, her courage, and her sense of self. With sharp psychological insight and vivid detail, Henry Handel Richardson depicts the pressures of adolescence and the complicated education that happens beyond the classroom: learning how power works, how reputations are made, and what it can cost to stay true to oneself.

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(00:33:59) Chapter 3

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(05:54:47) Chapter 20

(06:12:50) Chapter 21

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