Isabella Lucy Bird

Isabella Bird

Volume 1 of Isabella Bird's account introduces the region's difficulties and fascinations for a nineteenth-century traveller.

Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 1

The English traveler explores New England and the Mid-west, commenting on social mores and politics.

Englishwoman in America

Por primera vez en castellano el relato de un viaje asombroso realizado en solitario por una mujer que hizo época al retratar los misterios del inexplorado Japón del siglo XIX. Aislado, cerrado a los extranjeros, muy pocos occidentales se adentraban en el interior del país, e islas como la actual Hokkaidō, habitada por los ainus, guardaban secretos sin desvelar. Auténtica pionera, mujer valiente, de sólidas convicciones, y más que probada curiosidad, Bird atraviesa la espina dorsal del norte de Japón desvelando la ignota vida rural del interior y visitando remotas tribus aborígenes como los antiquísimos ainus, de cuya cultura poco o nada se tenía noticia en Europa. No será un viaje fácil, ni cómodo. A pie, a caballo, en barco, sampán o kuruma, allá donde va despierta curiosidad y su presencia convoca muchedumbres asombradas. Valiente y nada convencional, la vemos disfrutar a pesar de la comida, las pulgas, la dificultad de los caminos, o la ausencia de intimidad en las chadoyas, mientras que su afilada mirada nos desvela un Japón rebosante de prodigioso encanto. Traducido y editado con esmero por el profesor Carlos Rubio, su lectura revive hoy el hechizo de una cultura, lejana y distinta, que no deja de sorprendernos.

Japón inexplorado

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The book is a compilation of letters that Isabella Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta. In 1872, Isabella left Britain, going first to Australia, then to Hawaii, which she refers to as the Sandwich Islands. In 1873 she travelled to Colorado, then the Colorado Territory. After living a time in Hawaii, she takes a boat, to San Francisco. She passed the area of Lake Tahoe, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to ultimate Estes Park, Colorado, also elsewhere in and near the Rocky Mountains of the Colorado Territory. Early in Colorado, she met Rocky Mountain Jim, described as a desperado, but with whom she got along quite well. She described him as, "He is a man whom any woman might love but no sane woman would marry." She was the first white woman to stand atop Longs Peak, Colorado, pointing out that Jim "dragged me up, like a bale of goods, by sheer force of muscle." Rocky Mountain Jim treated her quite well, and it is sad to note, he was shot to death, seven months later. After many other adventures, Isabella Bird ultimately took a train, east. Upon publication, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains proved an "instant bestseller" and is still considered to be her best work.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

An 1875 account of an adventurous six-month stay in Hawaii by the best-selling Victorian travel writer Isabella Bird.

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands

"Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan - Volume III" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan -

"Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan - Volume I" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian rayahs Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, Bird toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. After her marriage, and the death of her husband in 1886, she did missionary work in India and then, in 1890, travelled to little-known parts of Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan in the company of Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army. This came to be the hardest journey of her experience, with extremes of temperature and harsh living conditions for the sixty-year-old, although she was able to provide medical care for the local people. Volume 1 introduces the region, its people, and their customs and includes many evocative anecdotes. It also contains a glossary and maps."

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume One, by Isabella Bird

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 2 (of 2)

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan By Isabella Bird This book is an illustrated version of the original Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan by Isabella L. Bird. "The letters of which these volumes are composed embrace the second half of journeys in the East extending over a period of two years. They attempt to be a faithful record of facts and impressions, but were necessarily written in haste at the conclusion of fatiguing marches, and often in circumstances of great discomfort and difficulty, and I relied for their correction in the event of publication on notes made with much care. Unfortunately I was robbed of nearly the whole of these, partly on my last journey in Persia and partly on the Turkish frontier, -a serious loss, which must be my apology to the reader for errors which, without this misfortune, would not have occurred." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Persia and Kurdistan, Persia and Kurdistan book, Persia and Kurdistan Bird

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2)

Volume 2 of Mrs. Bishop's Journeys concludes the adventure through Kurdistan, containing a passion for travelling that belies it difficulties.

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 2

Indefatigable traveller Isabella Bird visited Korea at a time of increasing foreign influence, and published her observations in 1898.

A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country

Korea and Her Neighbours

Hannah Davies

A detailed account of missionary work in nineteenth-century China by Hannah Davies.

Incidents of Missionary Work

Among Hills and Valleys in Western China

A work from 1899, praised as one of the most important English literary contributions on the subject of China.

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