Life of Nobuko

Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japans leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird. He has published extensively in Japanese on the subject, including a full annotated translation of the original two-volume edition of Unbeaten Tracks. He is known worldwide for his Twin Time Travel photographic exhibition, shown in many countries presenting Birds descriptions of what she wrote about in her books in juxtaposition with illustrations of the present.