The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird : The Fearless Victorian Adventurer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill-Murphy, Jacki.

Series:

Trailblazing Women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women travelers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Life and Travels of Isabella Bird

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Dedication

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Family

Travels: 1 North America 1854

Mixing in the wrong company

Travels: 2 and 3 America 1866 and 1872

Travels: 4 Australia, New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) 11 July 1872

Travels: 5 America, 2 September 1873

Travels: 6 Japan, May 1878

Travels: 7 Malaysia, arriving in Hong Kong on Christmas Day, 1878

Travels: 8 Pakistan, Ladakh, India and Persia 1889

Travels: 9 The Korea including China and Russia, 1894

Travels: 10 China 1895

The struggles and quieting of a restless spirit

Bibliography

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526763273

1526763273

9781526763259

1526763257

OCLC:

1248897560