Annie Brassey

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Annie Brassey (1839-87), was perhaps the first Western woman to arrive in Japan on her own family yacht, the Sunbeam. Having departed from Chatham with her family, friends, and crew, she and her husband, the English Member of Parliament Thomas Brassey, had already circumnavigated half the globe when they arrived in Japanese waters towards the end of January 1877. Over the next weeks she and her family went on to explore Japan in a way no foreigners visitors had done before them: by yacht. Starting out from Yokohama, they first anchor off Kobe, from where they traverse the Inland Sea, to visit Shimonoseki before their final departure through the Bungo Straits. Not wanting to miss out on Japan's cultural sites, she lands at all of there ports to make long overland excursions: to the opulent Mausoleums for the Tokugawa shōguns in Tokyo, to the Iwaya Caves on Enoshima, to the great Daibutsu and the Tsurugaoka Hachiman shrine in Kamakura, to the ancient temples of Kyoto, to the Imperial Mint at Osaka, and to the famed hot springs of Arima. Published back home under the title A Voyage in the Sunbeam, Brassey's unique account of her journey went on to run through several English editions, and was translated into many languages. Today, it still stands out among the other early travel accounts for its uniquely maritime perspective on the Japanese isles.

Anna ""Annie"" Brassey (n e Allnutt), Baroness Brassey (1839 - 1887) was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months was published in 1878. As a young woman, she also suffered from severe burns when she stood too close to a fireplace and her skirt caught fire; it took six months for her to recover. In 1860, she married the English Member of Parliament Thomas Brassey, with whom she lived near his Hastings constituency. The couple had five children together before they travelled aboard their luxury yacht Sunbeam. A Voyage in the Sunbeam, describing their journey round the world in 1876-77 with a complement of 43, including family, friends and crew, [6] ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages. Her accounts of later voyages include Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880);[7] In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties (1885); and The Last Voyage (1889, published posthumously).

Around the World in the Yacht 'Sunbeam' is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A Voyage in the Yacht Sunbeam - Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam - Our home on the ocean for eleven months is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.