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Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographic Society, visited the Rocky Mountains alone during the autumn of 1873.A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, gives a fascinating description of life in the untamed Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities, having been brutally seized from the Indians. Her intrepid journeys through remote areas are relayed in the form of fluent, achingly beautiful, highly spirited letters written to her sister.They tell of magnificent unspoiled landscapes, of small remote townships, of her encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears and her reactions to the volatile pioneer settlers as they came to terms with their isolation, poverty and difficulties as immigrants in the wake of the Civil War. These letters, first published in 1879, were enormously popular in Bird's own lifetime and remain as wonderfully vivid and powerful as ever.
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
One Woman's Travels Through the Rockies of Colorado and Wyoming in the 1870s
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
156 kr
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
One Woman's Travels Through the Rockies of Colorado and Wyoming in the 1870s (Hardcover)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
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In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement. The letters that make up this volume were first published in 1879. They tell of magnificent, unspoiled landscapes and abundant wildlife, of encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers. A classic account of a truly astounding journey.
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'There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird' SPECTATOR'Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits' RUBY WAX, GUARDIAN 'This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey' DERVLA MURPHY, IRISH TIMESBorn in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. A year later she took a solo trip from San Francisco to the Rocky Mountains. 'I dreamt of bears so vividly I woke with a furry death-hug at the my throat, but feeling quite refreshed.' The intrepid journeys of the indefatigable Miss Bird are relayed here in the delightful letters she wrote to her sister. They tell of 'truly grand' isolated wilderness and abundant wildlife, of small remote townships of her encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves and grizzly bears and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneer settlers.
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Primary Sources, Historical Collections
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the N, With a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
427 kr
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Primary Sources, Historical Collections
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the N, With a Foreword by T. S. Wentworth
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
306 kr
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Six Months Amoung the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, & Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
455 kr
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Six Months Amoung the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, & Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
348 kr
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After the success of The Englishwoman in America (also reissued in this series), the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831-1904) continued her travels - first to Scotland, then to Australia and Hawaii - before returning to the United States and taking up residence in what was then the newest state, Colorado. Her adventures here - recorded as letters to her sister which she artlessly tells the reader were never intended for publication - included riding alone across the prairie, trying to help a family dying of cholera in the face of indifference from the local inhabitants, a sight of the invalids who were coming to Denver in huge numbers to be cured by the mountain air, and an encounter (if it was nothing more) with that western archetype, the one-eyed, romantic, courteous, poetry-declaiming outlaw, who by the following year was 'in a dishonoured grave, with a rifle bullet in his brain'.
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In 1856, Isabella Bird published The Englishwoman in America, the first of what would be many books of her travels around the world. Adopting a tone of aloof bemusement, she describes in detail the hardships and annoyances of her travels by sea from England to Halifax, and on the road to Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago. The book's 20 chapters are full of keenly observed and entertainingly told stories of pickpockets and luggage thieves, greasy hotels, and Americans who are very polite, but have the unfortunate habit of spitting on the floor. Bird admits to sharing the regrettably prejudiced view the English have of America, but nevertheless finds much to like and admire in this new country bustling with ethnically diverse immigrants full of energy and bravado. The Englishwoman in America is a wonderful travelogue that offers a lively and personal glimpse into mid-nineteenth-century America.
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Unbeaten Tracks In Japan - An Account Of Travels In The Interior Including Visits To The Aborigines Of Yezo And The Shrine Of Nikko
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
333 kr
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146 kr
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Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands (1882)
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
441 kr
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295 kr
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248 kr
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Hawaiian Archipelago - Six Months Amongst The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
277 kr
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Hawaiian Archipelago - Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
491 kr
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