The Japan Diaries of Richard Gordon Smith.
Middlesex. Viking/Rainbird. 1986. Maps, many colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, 224pp, notes, index, ribbon bookmark, patches of fading on dustjacket, very good hardback copy. 28.2 x 19.5cm. "At daybreak on 24 December 1898, he first caught sight of Japan. Although by then a seasoned traveller, nothing had quite prepared him for..... More