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By Isabella L. Bird
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A traveler's narrative recounts journeys through Korea and neighboring regions, blending vivid landscape and street-level description with informed accounts of recent upheavals and shifting external influence. The author documents access to court and officials, records everyday customs and religious activity, and reflects on administrative reforms, finances, and social conditions. Observational prose is augmented by photographs, maps, and appendixes, and the work combines practical route and travel detail with cultural and political commentary to present a rounded, firsthand portrait of geography, institutions, and contemporary life.

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Title: Korea and her neighbors

Author: Isabella L. Bird

Author of introduction, etc.: Sir Walter Hillier

Release date: November 6, 2022 [eBook #69300]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1897

Credits: ellinora, Amber Black and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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KOREA, AND HER NEIGHBORS

MRS. BISHOP’S TRAVELING PARTY.

KOREA
And Her Neighbors

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.

Author of “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,” etc.

With a Preface by

Sir Walter C. Hillier, K.C.M.G.

Late British Consul-General for Korea

With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author,
and Maps, Appendixes and Index

New York   Chicago   Toronto

Fleming H. Revell Company

M DCCC XCVIII

Copyright 1897

BY

Fleming H. Revell Company