A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher:
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780806113289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen 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
Adventures in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780141032092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever written- from Isabella Bird's exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and cowboys in the Rocky Mountains to Marco Polo's mystified reports of a giant bird that eats elephants during his voyage along the coasts of India. Each beautifully packaged volume offers a way to see the world anew, to rediscover great civilizations and legends, vast deserts and unspoiled mountain ranges, unusual flora and strange new creatures, and much more.
Letters to Henrietta
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781555535544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) (Illustrated) by Isabella Bird
Author: Isabella Bird
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-04-03
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781530874859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode on her spirited horse Birdie through the American 'Wild West', a terrain only recently opened to pioneer settlement. Here she met Rocky Mountain Jim, her 'dear (one-eyed) desperado', fond of poetry and whisky - 'a man any women might love, but no sane woman would marry'. He helped her climb the 'American Matterhorn' and round up cattle on horseback
Steep Trails
Author: John Muir
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The papers brought together in this volume are arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir's life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation." -- Publisher's description.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella L. Bird
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 2021-05-07
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1513274309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized today as a pioneering woman whose contributions to travel writing, exploration, and philanthropy are immeasurable. In 1872—after a year of sailing from Britain to Australia and Hawaii—Isabella Bird journeyed by boat to San Francisco before making her way over land through California and Wyoming to the Colorado Territory. There, she befriended an outdoorsman named Rocky Mountain Jim, who guided her throughout the vast wilderness of Colorado and accompanied her during a journey of over 800 miles. Traveling on foot and on horseback—Bird was an experienced and skillful rider—the two formed a curious but formidable pair, eventually reaching the 14,259 foot (4346 m) summit of Longs Peak, making Bird one of the first women to accomplish the feat. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Bird’s most iconic work, was a bestseller upon publication, and has since inspired generations of readers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Isabella Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains is a classic of American literature and travel writing reimagined for modern readers.
An Anthology of Women's Travel Writings
Author: Shirley Foster
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780719050183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom eccentric, to cautious, to conventional, An anthology of Women's Travel Writing aims to challenge stereotypes of women travelers by presenting a range of possible forms of writing and new archetypes of female travelers. These diverse writings also attempt to confront the textual problems which result from both writing and traveling as a woman, such as the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, and the relationship to the adventure hero narrative.
Reaching Rocky Mountain Jim
Author: Kari August
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-10
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780991546602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gripping story""This is one of those stories that grab your attention and holds it right to the very end." - Amazon Reviewer In 1873, James Nugent, better known as Rocky Mountain Jim, is a hunter and trapper in Estes Park, a settlement just forming in the Colorado Territory. Scarred not only physically from a vicious grizzly bear attack, but emotionally from previous war experiences, he now lives alone in his cabin. When strong-willed Englishwoman, Isabella Bird, visits the area, and Jim acts as her guide in a treacherous ascent up Longs Peak Mountain, an unlikely but undeniable attraction develops between them. Complicating Jim's life further is powerful Lord Dunraven, who schemes to turn the region into his own private game preserve. Jim struggles to keep Estes Park safe from Dunraven's greed while fighting for a commitment from Isabella.
