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Korea And Her Neighbours
Korea and her Neighbours
Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop, 1831–1904) was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. Her accounts of travel in America, …
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Warbler Classics)
Among the Tibetans (1894) (Illustrated) by Isabella Bird
Among the Tibetans
Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in …
Englishwoman in America
Prefatory and explanatory - The voyage out - The sentimental - The actual - The oblivious - The medley - Practical joking - An unwelcome companion - American patriotism - The …
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
The daughter of a country parson, Isabella Bird was advised to travel for her health. Bird's compliance with her doctor's orders took her to the wildest regions of the American …
Among the Tibetans
The Golden Chersonese
In 1880, Isabella Bird visited the Malay Peninsula-romantically dubbed 'The Golden Chersonese'-and was still able to refer to it as an almost unknown land. The world's most famous …
Korea and Her Neighbors
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior: Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikk
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane …