02481cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000060010610000310011224500190014326400510016230000470021333600260026033700260028633800360031250000310034850800690037952014580044853400580190665300290196465300360199365300380202965300140206785600430208199900190212476455UtSlPG20260610134753.0mcr n260607r20251921utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7ade2iso639-1 4aG1 aRummel, Walter,d1873-195310aSonnenländer 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-07-07  aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net  aSonnenländer 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.)  pOriginally published:cLeipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1921  aVoyages around the world  aJapan -- Description and travel  aOceania -- Description and travel  aEthnology40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76455  c117180d117180