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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko
ISBN: 9780710308849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a narrative of travels in Japan undertaken in 1878 by someone who is probably the most famous female traveller and writer of the Victorian era. Travelling alone as a woman, she was the first to enter parts of Japan which had had no cultural contact whatsoever with a European, let alone a woman on her own. The letters which make up this work give a real picture of Japan and Japanese life at the time.
This is a narrative of travels in Japan undertaken in 1878 by someone who is probably the most famous female traveller and writer of the Victorian era...
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981,54 |
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Among the Tibetans
ISBN: 9789888422524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,99 |
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Englishwoman in America ( 1856) by Isabella L. Bird (Classics)
ISBN: 9781530888511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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47,66 |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
ISBN: 9788027284931 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a book by the English travel writer Isabella Bird, in the form of letters to her sister, describing her journey from Tokyo to Hokkaido in 1878 when she was 47. The book records in great detail her responses to Japanese houses, clothing and customs, and the natural environment, as they were during the early years of the Meiji Restoration. It also has a long section describing her visits to the Ainu people, and many passages describing what seemed to her the extreme poverty of many Japanese outside the major cities.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a book by the English travel writer Isabella Bird, in the form of letters to her sister, describing her journey from Tokyo...
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. (1879) NOVEL (Illustrated)
ISBN: 9781533279705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English 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 Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866). Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and...
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and n...
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46,31 |
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A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains, By Isabella L. Bird, illustratd: Isabella Lucy Bird
ISBN: 9781535340656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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...
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 adventur...
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31,02 |
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels on horseback in the interior: including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrines of Nikk
ISBN: 9781540507907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bird's sex but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hardscrabble lives....... Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial...
This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bi...
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47,99 |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird VOLUME I
ISBN: 9781530877232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,42 |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: Letters of Personal Adventure in 1873
ISBN: 9780857068415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A great lady traveller's best known work
Isabella Bird was born in 1831 in Cheshire, England became one of a distinguished group of female travellers famous in the nineteenth century-a time when it was considered that a lady's place should be confined to the home. Isabella travelled and explored the world extensively and became a notable writer and natural historian. This book, her fourth and arguably both her best and best known, concerns a journey of 800 miles through the Rocky Mountains. Isabella made the trip on horseback, using a conventional saddle. The American west was still wild... A great lady traveller's best known work
Isabella Bird was born in 1831 in Cheshire, England became one of a distinguished group of female travel... |
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72,10 |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
ISBN: 9781438512624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) was a 19th century British traveler and writer. Since her father was a Church of England priest, the family moved many times during her childhood. Bird traveled to Colorado when she heard the air was very healthy. She covered the 800 miles on horseback riding like a man and not sidesaddle. She also traveled extensively in Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Persia, Kurdistan, China, and Morocco. In 1878 she traveled to Japan and this book consists of the letters she wrote to her sister. Bird traveled north through the mountainous areas and eventually visited the island of...
Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) was a 19th century British traveler and writer. Since her father was a Church of England priest, the family moved many t...
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93,70 |
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
ISBN: 9788027308767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,40 |
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels on horseback in the interior: including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrines of Nikk
ISBN: 9781544271613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English 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. Early life: Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866). Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in...
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and n...
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50,90 |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
ISBN: 9781515134053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Excerpt from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko
Having been recommended to leave home, in April 1878, in order to recruit my health by means which had proved serviceable before, I decided to visit Japan, attracted less by the reputed excellence of its climate than by the certainty that it possessed, in an especial degree, those sources of novel and sustained interest which conduce so essentially to the enjoyment and restoration of a solitary health-seeker. The climate disappointed me, but,... Excerpt from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko
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The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
ISBN: 9781547260645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,24 |
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The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
ISBN: 9789361424427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
76,19 |
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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
ISBN: 9781979807968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,82 |
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Among the Tibetans
ISBN: 9781438503820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bird was born in Boroughbridge in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire.[1] As her father Edward was a Church of England priest, the family moved several times across Britain as he received different parish postings, most notably in 1848 when he was replaced as vicar of St. Thomas' when his parishioners objected to the style of his ministry.
Bird was born in Boroughbridge in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire.[1] As her father Edward was a Church of England priest, the family moved s...
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The Hawaiian archipelago; six months amongst palm groves, coral reefs, and: volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands, By Isabella L. Bird (MRS.BISHOP.), (pop
ISBN: 9781535340250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English 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.Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was a nineteenthcentury English traveller and writer. She was born in Boroughbridge and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. She was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with various ailments. Much of her illness may have been...
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and n...
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39,98 |
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Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels on horseback in the interior: including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrines of Nikk
ISBN: 9781540507594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bird's sex but because the country was virtually unknown to Westerners. The Japan she describes is not the sentimental world of Madame Butterfly but a vibrant land of real people with a complex culture and hardscrabble lives..... Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial...
This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan - a rarity not only because of Bi...
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47,99 |
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Among The Tibetans
ISBN: 9789374830871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
53,32 |