Sonnenländer by Walter Rummel
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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.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Rummel, Walter, 1873-1953 |
|---|---|
| Title | Sonnenländer |
| Original Publication | Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1921. |
| Credits | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation |
| Subject | Voyages around the world |
| Subject | Japan -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Oceania -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Ethnology |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76455 |
| Release Date | Jul 7, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 437 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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