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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady expected to marry a man of means and position. Instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. This book reveals the true story of Bird's relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains"--
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
"The watershed year of Isabella Lucy Bird's life was 1873. In autumn of that year, the forty-one-year-old English gentlewoman embarked by rail from San Francisco's east bay, bound for the Colorado Rockies. A challenging journey, it drove Bird to the utmost physical effort and initiated her life-long career in what today is called adventure travel. More than one hundred twenty years after their first publication, Isabella Bird's letters to her sister...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking but in everything it exceeds all my dreams. "
Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904)
Some people live to travel; Isabella Lucy Bird traveled to live. Dare to saddle up with this equestrian explorer on her way to becoming the best-loved travel writer of her day. Set off on a voyage from England to the South Seas. Jump ship in Honolulu, then hop on board the Kilauea steaming its way to sleepy Hilo....
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Robert Root describes his experiences retracing Isabella Bird's three-month journey in the Colorado Territory in 1873, shares information about her life and work, local history, and nature writing, and reflects on the thoughts of other writers, as well as his response to them.
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