books.google.com - The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Japanese_discovery_of_Victorian_Brit.html?id=c-pNQ9iLMM4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Japanese discovery of Victorian Britain
