Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831 1904) toured the United States and Canada, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Far East, India, Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan. Her accounts of her travels, written in the form of letters to her sister, were bestsellers. In 1875 she published her account of six months in the Hawaiian archipelago. During this time she explored the islands on horseback, visiting volcanos, climbing mountains, and living with the natives. The book includes considerable detail about...

Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop, 1831 1904) was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. Her accounts of travel in America, Hawaii, Japan and Persia were best-sellers. This two-volume work, first published in 1898, was one of the books arising from Bird's visit to Korea and China between 1894 and 1897, the other being The Yangtse Valley and Beyond (1899), also available in this series. Korea was a battleground during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 5, and subsequently became increasingly dominated by Japan, being annexed fully in 1910. Bird...

"A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

"Among the Tibetans" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

"Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan - Volume I" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

"Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan - Volume III" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

"The Englishwoman in America" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

"The Hawaiian Archipelago" from Isabella Bird. English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831 - 1904).

Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 - 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 the Reverend Edward Bird and his second wife Dora Lawson. 1] Isabella moved several times during her childhood. Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in...