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Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird

Author : Evelyn Kaye
Publisher : Blue Panda Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird written by Evelyn Kaye and published by Blue Panda Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Six Months in the Sandwich Islands

Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Six Months in the Sandwich Islands written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Isabella Bird

Author : Debbie Ireland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781450970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Isabella Bird written by Debbie Ireland and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Curious Life for a Lady

Author : Pat Barr
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571305865
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book A Curious Life for a Lady written by Pat Barr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Letters to Henrietta

Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535544
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Henrietta written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.

The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird

Author : Jacki Hill-Murphy
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781399003803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird written by Jacki Hill-Murphy and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Collected Travel Writings of Isabella Bird

Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Ganesha Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Travel Writings of Isabella Bird written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by Ganesha Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian feminist, Isabella Bird (1831-1904), showed an anthropological curiousity in the peoples and places she same upon. Her writings cover youthful travels in North America, and Hawaii, but it is for her Middle and Far Eastern travel writings that she is best known for.

Isabella

Author : Jennifer Fosberry
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402276494
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Isabella written by Jennifer Fosberry and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While playing in the backyard, Isabella imagines herself all over the world as a warrior, archeologist, queen, and astronomer.

Collected Travel Writing of Isabella Bird

Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Travel Writing of Isabella Bird written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Away with Words

Author : Lori Mortensen
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1682634361
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Away with Words written by Lori Mortensen and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dashing picture book biography takes us around the world with a daring Victorian female explorer and author. Exploring was easier said than done for a young woman in nineteenth-century England. But somehow Isabella persisted, and with each journey, she breathed in new ways to see and describe everything around her. Question by question, word by word, Isabella bloomed. First, out in the English countryside. Then, off to America and Canada. And eventually, around the world, to Africa, Asia, Australia, and more. Always more—more places, more questions, more words—and all those experiences became books, in which she described the land she traveled, the people she met, and the dangers she experienced. And finally, Isabella returned home to England, where she became the first female member of the Royal Geographic Society and was presented to the Queen. But to wild-vine Isabella, the world was home. Back matter features an author's note, bibliography, and timeline.

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

Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806131122
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Isabella Lucy Bird's "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Embrace of the Wild

Author : Linda Ballou
Publisher : Wind Dancer Press
ISBN 13 : 9781737925309
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Embrace of the Wild written by Linda Ballou and published by Wind Dancer Press. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 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.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584245
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

A Curious Life for a Lady

Author : Pat Barr
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780140079210
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book A Curious Life for a Lady written by Pat Barr and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1985 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. 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. This book tells the story of Bird.

Isabella Bird, Victorian Lady Traveller.

Author : Chris Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Isabella Bird, Victorian Lady Traveller. written by Chris Park and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new biography of famous Victorian lady traveller Isabella Bird explores three prominent themes that run through her life and work. One is her physical, emotional and spiritual restlessness, which kept her on the move and made it impossible for her to put down roots, even during her short mid-life marriage. The second theme is the homesickness that troubled her through her whole adult life; she turned the usual meaning of that word on its head, because she suffered endless physical and mental illness when confined to Britain but was carefree, full of energy and healthy while away on her travels overseas, particularly 'off the beaten track' in places rarely previously visited by a European woman. The third theme, a key to understanding her adult life, was the endless tension she wrestled with between duty and desire; duty as defined by the expectations of a Victorian lady, and a member of a strongly Evangelical Christian family, and desire as manifest in her drive to live her own life, free to travel and to write. Looked at through these 3 lenses, the book explores the extent to which Isabella was able to 'live her best life'.