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Chargement... ADVENTURES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (PENGUIN GREAT JOURNEYS) (édition 2007)par ISABELLA BIRD
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A rich and involving travelogue written in the early 1870s, Isabella Bird's extracts in Adventures in the Rocky Mountains were composed as long letters to her sister, and have that immediacy of being written on location. She was writing at a time when much of the landscape of the American West remained unsettled – "there no lumberer's axe has ever rung" (pg. 57) – and her book would be fascinating even if only for this reason. The fact that Bird also has the language at her command – the descriptions of colours and shapes of landscape are vivid but never taper off into verbosity – only heightens the grandeur of this slight book. Nature is "rioting in her grandest mood" (pg. 63) and some of the sights Bird describes satisfy the soul and make you wonder at how stunning the virgin country must have been at that time. "There is health in every breath of air" (pg. 42), and the author brings it to you, providing an awe-inspiring and quietly restorative read. ( ) Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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