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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)

AvIsabella L Bird

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

380 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

AvIsabella L Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

158 kr

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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

AvIsabella L. Bird,Daniel J. Boorstin

Häftad, Engelska, 1975

135 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

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.

Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Letters of Personal Adventure in 1873

AvIsabella L Bird

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

357 kr

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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Letters of Personal Adventure in 1873

AvIsabella L Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

205 kr

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Del 789 - Virago Modern Classics

Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains

AvIsabella L. Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 1982

158 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

'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.

Hawaiian Archipelago

AvIsabella L Bird

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

405 kr

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Hawaiian Archipelago

AvIsabella L Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

294 kr

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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan

AvIsabella L Bird

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

447 kr

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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan

AvIsabella L Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

317 kr

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Chinese Pictures

Notes on Photographs Made in China

AvIsabella L 1831-1904 Bird,Isabella L. 1831-1904 Birdm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

196 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

AvIsabella Lucy Bird,Bishopm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

433 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

AvIsabella Lucy Bird,Bishopm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

308 kr

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Six Months Amoung the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, & Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands

AvIsabella L Bird

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

461 kr

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Six Months Amoung the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, & Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands

AvIsabella L Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

350 kr

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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

AvIsabella L. Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

454 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'.

The Englishwoman in America

AvIsabella L. Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

566 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

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.