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Englishwoman in America

By: Isabella Bird

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Englishwoman in America

By: Isabella Bird

The English traveler explores New England and the Mid-west, commenting on social mores and politics.

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Applewood Books

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1429003375

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9781429003377

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

Women were scarce enough in the West of the late nineteenth century, and a middle-aged English lady traveling alone, by horseback, was a real phenomenon. It was during the autumn and early winter of 1873 that Isabella Bird made this extended tour of the Rocky Mountain area of Colorado guided by desperado Mountain Jim. This book contains letters to her sister detailing her experiences during this travel. -- from back cover

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806113286

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9780806113289

Six Months in Hawaii

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

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Six Months in Hawaii

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

Set in the islands in 1873, is the compelling account of the true life adventures that transformed a quiet English lady into the darling and dashing world traveler Isabella Bird, whose exploits held the world enthralled. She spent six months journeying through the islands, cantering through lush forests and grasslands on spirited ponies, drifting over the rolling blue seas on raffish schooners, and finally making her way to the fiery volcano of Mauna Loa.

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Routledge

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0710302320

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9780710302328

Isabella Lucy Bird's "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains"

An Annotated Text

By: Isabella Lucy Bird,Ernest S. Bernard

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Isabella Lucy Bird's "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains"

An Annotated Text

By: Isabella Lucy Bird,Ernest S. Bernard

The watershed year of Isabella Lucy Bird's life was 1873. In autumn of that year, the forty-one-year-old English gentlewoman embarked by rail from San Francisco's east bay, bound for the Colorado Rockies. A challenging journey, it drove Bird to the utmost physical effort and initiated her lifelong career in what today is called adventure travel. More than one hundred twenty years after their first publication, Isabella Bird's letters to her sister continue to thrill readers with their account of the then-untamed and largely unknown American mountain wilderness. This elegant illustrated edition of Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, annotated by Ernest S. Bernard, sheds fresh light on ambiguities and obscurities in Bird's letters and contains new details about the frontier Rocky Mountain West -- a region Bird found so beautiful that she gently chided "nature for her close imitation of art". Readers will share Bird's joy and terror as she scales the nearly sheer face of Longs Peak; her wistfulness and wonder in the company of the dashing, doomed mountain man, "Rocky Mountain Jim"; and her unalloyed rapture as she glories in "the rushing winds, the piled-up peaks, the great pines, the wild night noises, the poetry and prose" of her beloved mountains. In addition to a map of Bird's 1873 route and contemporary photographs, this new annotated edition includes an appendix that illustrates and charts the course of Bird's historic ascent of Longs Peak, allowing travelers -- real and armchair -- to share the dangers and discoveries of Isabella Lucy Bird's amazing journey.

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276

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0806131128

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9780806131122

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" was written by Isabella L. Bird, one of the most famous British travelers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her destinations included Canada, the United States (the Rocky Mountains), Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Persia, Kurdistan, China, and Morocco. She is particularly known for her intrepidness and lively writing style. Written in the form of letters to her sister, "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" is viewed as a classic of travel writing and a valuable account of little documented areas of Japan in that era. Rather than stay in the Tokyo region or travel south to Kyoto, the mecca of Japanese civilization, she chose to travel north through the most arduously mountainous areas and eventually visit the island of Hokkaido, where lived the indigenous Ainu. "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" provides a fascinating firsthand account of the Japanese countryside and its inhabitants, detailed descriptions of nature, and interesting observations about the customs and characteristics of both the Japanese and Ainu people. Isabella Bird deliberately chose to avoid the main routes as she traveled northward, and for the villagers she meets along the way, she is the first foreigner that they have ever laid their eyes upon. The reaction that she provokes is enough to make you laugh as Isabella does a good job of describing the scene before her eyes while travelling the "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.

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206

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1611043158

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9781611043150

Among the Tibetans

By: Isabella Lucy Bird,Isabella Bird

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Among the Tibetans

By: Isabella Lucy Bird,Isabella Bird

Among the Tibetans recounts Isabella Bird's travels and experiences in the Himalayas, and her encounters with the native people.

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170

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Cambridge University Press

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1108014720

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9781108014724

The Hawaiian Archipelago

By: Isabella L. Bird

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The Hawaiian Archipelago

By: Isabella L. Bird

“The Hawaiian Archipelago” is a great eyewitness account of Hawaii in 1863, by one of the era's most intrepid travelers, after it had been impacted by its collision with the American and European powers but while it was still a robust independent Kingdom and before its forced assimilation into the USA. Isabella Bird visited the Sandwich Islands in 1871, when she was forty. Her letters home to her sister Henrietta have a remarkable freshness and spontaneity, and reveal the transformation of a Victorian invalid into a fearless horsewoman and enthusiastic mountain-climber, who thought nothing of riding for miles soaked with rain and fording terrifyingly swollen rivers. She undertook a thirteen-hour unaccompanied trek to the summit of the extinct volcano of Mauna Kea, revelling in the security with which she was able to travel and camp out without guides or companions. At the end of her stay she was able to make the perilous ascent to the summit of Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world, camping for the night on the edge of the crater, at nearly 14,000 feet. Isabella Bird's travel writing is a wonderful look at the world at the turn of the last century. Her writing is fluid and clear and her insights into people and places are gentile but pointed. In “The Hawaiian Archipelago,” Isabella Bird is at her best, giving the reader a fascinating and insightful taste of the old Hawaii.

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272

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1481275607

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9781481275606

The Hawaiian Archipelago

By: Isabella L. Bird

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The Hawaiian Archipelago

By: Isabella L. Bird

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1854 her life of travelling began when the opportunity arose for Isabella to sail to the United States accompanying her second cousins to their family home. Her father "gave her 100 and leave to stay away as long as it lasted.". Her "bright descriptive letters" written home to her relations formed the basis for her first book "An Englishwoman in America" published by Murray in 1856. John Murray, "as well as being Isabella's lifelong publisher, ... one of her closest friends. " In 1872, going first to Australia, which she disliked, and then to Hawaii (known in Europe as the Sandwich Islands), her love for which prompted her second book (published three years later). While there she climbed Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. She then moved on to Colorado, then the newest member of the United States, where she had heard the air was excellent for the infirm. Dressed practically and riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she covered over 800 miles in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. Her letters to her sister, first printed in the magazine Leisure Hour, comprised her fourth and perhaps most famous book, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

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0368688550

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9780368688553

Letters to Henrietta

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

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Letters to Henrietta

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.

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388

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UPNE

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1555535542

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9781555535544

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

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1449917003

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9781449917005

Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

By: Isabella Bird

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Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

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Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

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Penguin UK

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0141963271

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9780141963273

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Six Months Amongst Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

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The Hawaiian Archipelago

Six Months Amongst Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands

By: Isabella Lucy Bird

The Hawaiian Archipelago" is a great eyewitness account of Hawaii in 1863, by one of the era's most intrepid travelers, after it had been impacted by its collision with the American and European powers but while it was still a robust independent Kingdom and before its forced assimilation into the USA. Isabella Bird visited the Sandwich Islands in 1871, when she was forty. Her letters home to her sister Henrietta have a remarkable freshness and spontaneity, and reveal the transformation of a Victorian invalid into a fearless horsewoman and enthusiastic mountain-climber, who thought nothing of riding for miles soaked with rain and fording terrifyingly swollen rivers. She undertook a thirteen-hour unaccompanied trek to the summit of the extinct volcano of Mauna Kea, revelling in the security with which she was able to travel and camp out without guides or companions. At the end of her stay she was able to make the perilous ascent to the summit of Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world, camping for the night on the edge of the crater, at nearly 14,000 feet. Isabella Bird's travel writing is a wonderful look at the world at the turn of the last century. Her writing is fluid and clear and her insights into people and places are gentile but pointed. In "The Hawaiian Archipelago," Isabella Bird is at her best, giving the reader a fascinating and insightful taste of the old Hawaii.

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1611040167

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9781611040166

Golden Chersonese

By: Isabella Bird

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Golden Chersonese

By: Isabella Bird

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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262

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Routledge

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1136200983

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9781136200984

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond

By: Isabella Bird,Graham Earnshaw

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The Yangtze Valley and Beyond

By: Isabella Bird,Graham Earnshaw

Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travelers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. In describing the journey, Isabella provides a rich mix of observations and describes two occasions when she is almost killed by anti-foreign mobs. It many ways, Isabella created the model for travel writing today, and this one of her greatest works.

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988173262X

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Book's by Isabella Lucy Bird

Englishwoman in America

Englishwoman in America

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Six Months in Hawaii

Six Months in Hawaii

Isabella Lucy Bird's "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains"

Isabella Lucy Bird's "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains"

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Among the Tibetans

Among the Tibetans

The Hawaiian Archipelago

The Hawaiian Archipelago

The Hawaiian Archipelago

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Letters to Henrietta

Letters to Henrietta

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

The Hawaiian Archipelago

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Golden Chersonese

Golden Chersonese

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond

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