Isabella Bird: 29 books

2 works of Isabella Bird English explorer, writer, and natural historian (1831-1904) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Isabella Bird. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - 1880 - Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - 1883 - The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither

In 1878, a decade after Japan was launched into the world of modern nations by the Meiji restoration of 1868, Isabella Lucy Bird set off alone to explore the interior. Ninety years ago Japan was still a mysterious country to Westerners. Miss Bird must have presented a fearsome sight to Japanese...

In Korea and Her Neighbours, written in two volumes between 1894 and 1897, Isabella Bird documents one of the most critical and interesting periods of Korean history. Violently torn from centuries of seclusion, this fragile nation awoke to find itself confronted on all sides by an array of powerful,...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Like the glorious afterglow so often described in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879), Isabella Bird's impassioned travelogue continues to delight us as it recounts escapades of blizzards, grizzly bears, and...

Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished...

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1891 edition by John Murray, London. This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately. This edition includes illustrations. This edition comes with a oversize map available as a free download. Isabella Lucy Bird (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was a nineteenth-century...

A fascinating look at the people of Tibet by 19th Century travel writer Isabella Bird.

Elibron Classics. Digitized replica oof 1898 edition by Fleming H. Revell Company, New York - Chicago - Toronto. This is an illustrated edition. Oversize maps are available as a free download. This book was written by a remarkable woman, Isabella Bird Bishop, an independent British Victorian lady...

Published in 1875, this account of Bird's visit to the Hawaiian islands consists of her letters home to her sister.  As well as providing an unequaled glimpse into a vanished Hawaii, the letters brim with personal discovery, as Bird, who undertook the journey for health purposes, transforms herself into a brave adventurer.

The author's account of travelling through Japan in 1878. This is a narrative of travels in Japan communicated via letters.  First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of pre–American Hawaii. Isabella Lucy Bird won fame in her own time as the most remarkable woman traveler of the nineteenth century, and Six Months in the Sandwich Isles, in which she describes...

Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travelers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. In describing the journey, Isabella provides a rich mix of observations and describes two occasions...

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 West, Malaysia, Kurdistan, Persia, the Moroccan desert, and China, among other places. One of nine popular accounts of her...