1st Edition
Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913 An Anthology of Travel Writing
By David N. Wells
Copyright 2005
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early eighteenth century onwards, as a result of their expanding commercial interests in East Asia and the North Pacific, Russians had begun to encounter Japanese and were increasingly eager to establish diplomatic and trading relations with Japan. This book... Read more
1. Journal of Laxman's Embassy to Japan (Ezo, 1792-3) 2. Voyage Round the World (Nagasaki, 1804-5) 3. Narrative of My Captivity in Japan (Ezo, 1811) 4. The Frigate Pallada (Nagasaki, 1853) 5. News from Japan (Edo, 1859) 6. In the East (Hakodate, 1860) 7. Around Asia (Nagasaki, 1880) 8. On the Japanese Railways (Nagoya, 1890) 9. Around the Islands of the Far East (Nagasaki, 1892) 10. Around Korea, Manchuria and the Liaodong Peninsula (Nagasaki, Yokohama, 1898) 11. The Price of Blood (Kyoto, 1905) 12. My First Day in Japan (Gifu, 1913)
Biography
David N. Wells is a senior librarian at Curtin University Library in Perth, Western Australia. He has published widely on Russian Literature, including two books on the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. He is joint editor (with Sandra Wilson) of The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspectives, 1904-05.
