"Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index...and beautiful layout to boot." Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881-1965), walking Japan\'s ancient T kaid and Nakasend highroads on the eve of the First World War, is still very much the late-nineteenth century traveler, pith helmet and all.
And while, like so many of his contemporaries, he is prone to the unabashed Orientalism of his day, he is thankfully free of the "eczema. "Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index...and beautiful layout to boot." Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881-1965), walking Japan\'s ancient T kaid and Nakasend highroads on the eve of the First World War, is still very much the late-nineteenth century traveler, pith helmet and all
