A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L Bird

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L Bird

Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographic Society, visited the Rocky Mountains alone during the autumn of 1873.A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, gives a fascinating description of life in the untamed Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities, having been brutally seized from the Indians. Her intrepid journeys through remote areas are relayed in the form of fluent, achingly beautiful, highly spirited letters written to her sister.They tell of magnificent unspoiled landscapes, of small remote townships, of her encounters with rattlesnakes, wolves, pumas and grizzly bears and her reactions to the volatile pioneer settlers as they came to terms with their isolation, poverty and difficulties as immigrants in the wake of the Civil War. These letters, first published in 1879, were enormously popular in Bird's own lifetime and remain as wonderfully vivid and powerful as ever.

Isabella Bird was a nineteenth century English explorer, writer, and natural historian whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographical Society.In 1879 she visited Malaya, Singapore, Indo-China and Hong Kong, writing 23 letters home to her sister Hennie in Scotland, and naming the collection The Golden Chersonese, the ancient Greek name for the Malay Peninsul

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ISBN 13	9781912081004
ISBN 10	1912081008
Title	A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author	Isabella L Bird
Series	Stanfords Travel Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
Year published	2017-04-27
Number of pages	192
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