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Author: Evelyn Kaye
Publisher: Blue Panda Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning biography of 19th adventurer Isabella Bird who visited Colorado, Hawaii, and Australia, and gallivanted around Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and Tibet writing best-selling books about her travels. She was the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was given an award by the King of Hawaii, and was presented to Queen Victoria.
Author: Evelyn Kaye
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780962623141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning biography of 19th adventure Isabella Bird who visited Colorado, Hawaii and Australia, and gallivanted around Japan, China, Korea, Russia and Tibet writing best-selling books about her travels.
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isabella Lucy Bird
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.
Author: Debbie Ireland
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781781450970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrating the achievements of Isabella Bird, this is a lavish pictorial record of her last great journey through China, in the closing years of the 19th century.
Author: Pat Barr
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-07-23
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0571305865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. In 1872, at the age of forty, this rather earnest daughter of a country parson abandoned the rectory nest and began her pioneering journeys to some of the most inhospitable corners of the world. Undismayed by discomfort or danger she was to spend almost thirty years travelling - to the Rocky Mountains, the Sandwich Isles, to Japan, Malaya, Kashmir and Tibet, to Persia, Korea and China - where an indomitable spirit, an unassuming cordiality and, above all, a limitless capacity for being interested won her universal welcome. Her accounts of her experiences became best-selling books and established for Isabella Bird a reputation as one of the great travel writers of her day. 'Miss Barr has her measure. She and Miss Bird are well suited. The style of both is fresh, energetic, visual, making an enchanting book.' Evening Standard 'Rich and riotous as her intrepid heroine moves at the speed of a silent movie through landscapes lusher than any technicolour.' Times Literary Supplement 'A rare book.' Sunday Telegraph
Author: Linda Ballou
Publisher: Wind Dancer Press
Published: 2021-09-29
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781737925309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the age of forty, Isabella Bird pushed all social convention aside, ignored failed remedies of the doctors and embarked on a world voyage in 1873 that changed her forever. A six month detour in the lush Hawaiian Islands gave her new strength and stamina. A tenacious horsewoman she rode with Hawaiian natives up the flank of Kilauea to the fiery home of the Goddess Pele's and into the depths of Waipio Valley where the gods come close. From there, she determined to explore the wonders of Colorado, where she rode 800 miles solo on her mare Birdie. In Estes Park she met an unlikely soulmate in the form of the mercurial character named Rocky Mountain Jim. She prevailed upon him to guide her up Longs Peak. Jim shared with her the majesty of his realm allowing her to know the embrace of the wild. Saddle up with Isabella Bird and set your spirit free.
Author: Jacki Hill-Murphy
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2024-05-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781399003803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad'. In Japan she rode on a 'yezo savage' through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks, and was followed in the city by a crowd of a thousand, whose clogs clattered 'like a hailstorm' as they vied for a glimpse of the foreigner. She documented America before and after the Civil War and was deported from Korea with only the tweed suit she stood up in during a Japanese invasion. In China she was attacked with rocks and sticks and called a foreign dog, but she never gave up and went home. 'The prospect of the unknown has its charms.' Transformed by distant lands, she crossed raging floods, rode elephants, cows and yak, clung to her horse's neck as it clambered down cliff paths, slept on simple mats on the bare ground, unable to change out of wet clothes or get out of the searing heat. Her travels and the books she wrote about them show courage and tenacity, fueled by a restless spirit and a love of nature. She is as unique now as she was then.
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 440
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