02479cam a22003373u 4500 76455 UtSlPG 20260610134753.0 m cr n 260607r20251921utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG de iso639-1 G Rummel, Walter, 1873-1953 Sonnenländer Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-07-07 The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Sonnenländer by Walter Rummel is a travelogue written in the early 20th century. It follows a sun-seeking traveler through the tropics and subtropics—most vividly Japan and the Western Pacific—mixing vivid nature writing with keen observations of everyday life and custom. Readers can expect intimate portraits of people and places, as well as firsthand encounters with festivals, storms, rapids, and earthquakes. The opening of this travelogue carries the narrator from Hamburg across the Atlantic to Cuba and Mexico, up through the blazing U.S. Southwest to California, then by steerage via Hawai‘i to Japan. In Yokohama he deliberately avoids European hotels for a Japanese-run inn, sketches its unfailingly courteous staff, and endures sweltering, mosquito-plagued nights before reveling in the city’s lantern-lit streets, theaters, and geisha performances. He wanders with his host Shibata through countryside inns and baths, eats simply with chopsticks, delights in children and village life, and traces the coast among fishermen. A stretch of relentless rain brings floods, taifun damage, a perilous cable-ferry river crossing, and a jarring earthquake in Yokohama. The section culminates in a breathtaking descent of the Tenryugawa rapids, lively temple festivals, and a hushed, reverent sojourn on Miyajima—an “island of the blessed” that prompts a reflective mood about old Japan. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1921 Voyages around the world Japan -- Description and travel Oceania -- Description and travel Ethnology https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76455 117180 117180