Isabella Lucy Bird (1831–1904)
Auteur de Une anglaise au Far West : Voyage d'une femme aux rocheuses
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Séries
Œuvres de Isabella Lucy Bird
The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands (1875) 187 exemplaires
Isabella Lucy Bird's "a Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains": An Annotated Text (1999) 11 exemplaires
コタン探訪記―日本の知られざる辺境 北海道編 (1977年) (北海道ライブラリー〈7〉) 1 exemplaire
Chinese Pictures: Notes on Photographs 1 exemplaire
Buddhist Directory 1 exemplaire
Up Long's Peak in 1873 with Rocky Mountain Jim 1 exemplaire
Korea and her neighbors; a narrative of travel, with an account of the vicissitudes and position of the country (2017) 1 exemplaire
Notes on Old Edinburgh 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (1998) — Contributeur — 84 exemplaires
A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird, a Remarkable Victorian Traveller (1970) — quelques éditions — 49 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- Bishop, Isabella Bird
- Date de naissance
- 1831-10-15
- Date de décès
- 1904-10-07
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Boroughbridge, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Boroughbridge, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Tattenhall, Cheshire, England, UK
Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK (tout afficher 7)
Wyton, Huntingdonshire, England, UK - Études
- at home
- Professions
- writer
traveller
natural historian - Organisations
- Royal Geographical Society
- Prix et distinctions
- First woman fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- Courte biographie
- Isabella Lucy Bird was a peripatetic Victorian Englishwoman who travelled around the globe and wrote popular books and magazine articles about her adventures. In 1880, she married Edinburgh physician John Bishop and in 1892, she became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society.
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Folio Archives 330: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird 1988 à Folio Society Devotees (Juillet 2023)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 44
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 2,124
- Popularité
- #12,119
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 42
- ISBN
- 318
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 3
I found the first third of this book rather dull, and the author somewhat judgmental. I was tempted to abandon it, but I'm glad I didn't.
The book is a collection of journal-style letters written by Bird to her sister, and they detail her solo journeys by horseback around Colorado in 1873. Much of the book is simply Bird describing the scenery and weather conditions, and there is some commentary on various companions she meets along the way.
Her love for a simple life lived out of doors made me long to return to my similar experience of bicycling across several states and tenting overnights.
This is a book I'd recommend primarily to nature-lovers, as not much happens story-wise.
"This is a view to which nothing needs to be added... This scenery satisfies my soul." p 55… (plus d'informations)