Basil Hall: 21 books

2 works of Basil Hall British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author (1788-1844) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Basil Hall. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Account of a Voyage of Discovery The Lieutenant and Commander

2 works of Basil Hall Chamberlain Professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University (1850-1935) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Basil Hall Chamberlain. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Aino Folk-Tales The Invention of a New Religion

Basil Hall Chamberlain (October 18, 1850 – February 15, 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. The most famous works of Basil Hall Chamberlain are translation of the “Kojiki” (1882),...

Basil Hall Chamberlain (October 18, 1850 – February 15, 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. The most famous works of Basil Hall Chamberlain are translation of the “Kojiki” (1882),...

Basil Hall Chamberlain (October 18, 1850 – February 15, 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. The most famous works of Basil Hall Chamberlain are translation of the “Kojiki” (1882),...

Basil Hall Chamberlain (October 18, 1850 – February 15, 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. The most famous works of Basil Hall Chamberlain are translation of the “Kojiki” (1882),...

First published in 1931. 'Hall is the ideal travel-writer. He never wearies his readers, but makes them love him.' Times Literary Supplement Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels originally appeared in nine volumes. Miscellaneous in their topics, and arranged without any order the volumes...

An autobiography of Captain Basil Hall of the Royal Navy in the 1800s. A wonderfully detailed look into the history of the Royal Navy.

Armchair travelers beware! Japanese Things will lure you out of your cozy, comfy home and chair to an unusual country with bewitching manners and customs-and once you have succumbed to its spell you will never be the same. Here in one neat package you will meet the flavor, charm, and piquancy...

Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Hall Chamberlain This is a collection of Ainu folktales, by the translator of the Kojiki. "The Ainu are an ethnic minority in Japan, living primarily on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido, although there were also small populations of Ainu living...

Twelve hundred years ago a Chinese historian stated that "on the eastern frontier of the land of Japan there is a barrier of great mountains, beyond which is the land of the Hairy Men." These were the Aino, so named from the word in their own language signifying "man." Over most of the country of these...

Diverses circonstances concoururent à me donner de très-bonne heure ce qu’on appelle « le goût de la mer. » En premier lieu, ma mère me mit au monde au bruit d’une tempête. Telle était la violence du vent, la pluie battait les murailles et le toit avec une telle force, qu’on se préparait...

Voltaire and the other eighteenth-century philosophers, who held religions to be the invention of priests, have been scorned as superficial by later investigators. But was there not something in their view, after all? Have not we, of a later and more critical day, got into so inveterate a habit of digging...

Published in 2000, The Classical Poetry of the Japanese is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.