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Japan by Yacht

By Annie Brassey, de Lange William (Editor)
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By Annie Brassey, de Lange William (Editor)
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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. St...

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