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  • Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

    Enriched edition.

    by Isabella L. Bird, Clara Easton ...
    In "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan," Isabella L. Bird embarks on an extraordinary journey through the intricate landscapes and rich cultures of late 19th-century Japan. Written in a lively and engaging prose style, the book is both a travelogue and a personal memoir, presenting vivid accounts of Bird's encounters with diverse communities, customs, and the unvarnished realities of Japanese life. Her ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Victorian Woman's Epistolary Journey Through Colorado Territory, Longs Peak, and the American West

    by Isabella Bird, Romy Jasperwell ...
    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains gathers the letters Isabella Bird wrote during her 1873 travels through Colorado, transforming private correspondence into a vivid work of Victorian travel literature. With precise observation, dramatic landscape description, and a quietly ironic self-awareness, Bird records frontier settlements, mountain ascents, rough hospitality, and encounters with figures ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Isabella Bird

    by Isabella Bird ...
    The Complete Works of Isabella BirdIsabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.This collection includes the following:Unbeaten Tracks in JapanNotes on Old ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

    Enriched edition.

    by Isabella Bird, Clara Easton ...
    In "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains," Isabella Bird presents a vivid and captivating account of her travels through the untamed wilderness of the American West during the 1870s. Employing an intimate, conversational literary style, Bird deftly mingles travelogue and memoir, painting a rich tapestry of the landscapes, cultures, and challenges she encountered. Her narrative is laced with keen ... Read more

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  • Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

    by Isabella Bird ...
    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a travel diary written by Isabella Bird of her trip to Japan in 1878, at the age of 47. It was first published in English in 1881.Isabella Lucy Bird (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. ... Read more

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  • The Hawaiian Archipelago

    by Isabella Lucy Bird ...
    Within the last century the Hawaiian islands have been the topic of various works of merit, and some explanation of the reasons which have led me to enter upon the same subject are necessary. I was travelling for health, when circumstances induced me to land on the group, and the benefit which I derived from the climate tempted me to remain for nearly seven months. During that time the necessity ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

    by Isabella Lucy Bird ...
    I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way! A strictly North American beauty—snow-splotched mountains, huge pines, red-woods, sugar pines, silver spruce; a crystalline atmosphere, waves of the richest color; and a pine-hung lake which mirrors all beauty on its surface. Lake Tahoe is before me, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Englishwoman in America, Notes on Old Edinburgh and The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

    by Isabella Lucy Bird ...
    Isabella Bird first woman to be elected to the Royal Geographical Society, 1831 - 1904. This book was published in 1856, her excursions to mid 19th century America. Shows the changes in America at the turn of the century through her eyes. As a general dislike of prefaces is unmistakeably evidenced by their uncut leaves, and as unknown readers could scarcely be induced to read a book by the most ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unbeaten Tracks In Japan

    by Isabella Bird ...
    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. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

    An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko

    by Isabella L. Bird ...
    Nineteenth-century English traveler, writer, and natural historian Isabella Bird contributes this stunning narrative to the genre of early travelogues about Japan. The volume Unbeaten Tracks in Japan includes a series of essays recounting Bird's months-long sojourn in the Far East. Already a treat for fans of 19th century travel literature, the book is rendered all the more unique by virtue of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Six Months in the Sandwich Islands

    by Isabella L. Bird ...
    This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of preAmerican 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 her sojourn in Hawaii in 1873, is one of the gems of Pacific literature. It is safe to say that no other ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

    by Isabella Bird ...
    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 world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD