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Author: Evelyn Kaye Publisher: Blue Panda Publications ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 236
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Award-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: Blue Panda Publications ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
Award-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: ISBN: 9780962623141 Category : Women travelers Languages : en Pages : 0
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Award-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: Debbie Ireland Publisher: ISBN: 9781781450970 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 0
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Celebrating 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 ISBN: 0571305865 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 407
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Isabella 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: Jacki Hill-Murphy Publisher: Pen and Sword History ISBN: 9781399003803 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Isabella 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: Robert Root Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806184159 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 333
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A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird’s three-month journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her—and what it would come to mean for him. Following Isabella is a work of intersecting histories. Root interweaves an overview of Bird’s life and work with regional history, nature writing, and his own travels to produce a uniquely informative and entertaining narrative. He probes Bird’s self-transformation as her writing moved from private letters to published books, and also draws on reflections of other authors of her day, including Grace Greenwood and Helen Hunt Jackson. Like Bird, Root experiences his most fulfilling moments in the mountains, climbing formidable Longs Peak, living alone in the cabin of famed editor William Allen White, and wandering wild landscapes. Through reflections on earlier writers’ experiences, and by weighing his own response to them, Root learns not only how to come to Colorado, as visitors so often do, but more important, how to stay.
Author: Evelyn Kaye
Author: Evelyn Kaye
Author: Evelyn Kaye
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird
Author: Debbie Ireland
Author: Pat Barr
Author: Jacki Hill-Murphy
Author: Robert Root
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird