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."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.

Adventures in the Rocky Mountains (Penguin Great Journeys)

History

BIRD, ISABELLA

Americas

Penguin??Books

Korea And Her Neighbours

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Asia

Franklin Classics

Among Hills and Valleys in Western China: Incidents of Missionary Work (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration)

Davies, Hannah

Cambridge University Press

Six Months in Hawaii (Pacific Basin Books)

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Six Months In Hawaii (Pacific Basin Series)

Reference

Routledge

Among The Tibetans

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Among the Tibetans

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Unbeaten Tracks In Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikko (Kegan Paul Travellers Series)

In January 1890 Isabella Bird (1831-1904), aged fifty-nine and four years a widow, began the toughest single journey of her life. Already a veteran of expeditions to the Rocky Mountains, Japan and Malaysia, her challenge this time was a series of punishing journeys into Persia and Kurdistan, Tibet and Ladakh, Korea and China. Escorted by Major Herbert Sawyer, she left Baghdad and toiled for six weeks in appalling winter conditions, across uncharted mountainous territory, to arrive 'nearly blind from fatigue' in Tehran. A month later she set out on another, hardly less exacting exploration of a remote part of Luristan. Exceptionally courageous and stoical, she yearned for the 'untrammelled freedom of the wilds' and relished every new experience - from wandering disguised in city bazaars to enduring squalid caravanserais, from meeting by chance the Shah of Persia to administering to the nomadic Bakhtiari Lurs.

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: 001

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Virago Press Ltd.

Nau Sea Sea Sick is a collection of highly unusual sea stories, selected and illustrated by American artist Kay Rosen. Rosen's selection ranges across literary eras and genres: John Moore's “Local Boy Makes Good”; Katherine Mansfield's “The Voyage”; Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat”; Isabella Bird's “The Hawaiian Archipelago, Letter I”; John Aaron Rosen's “Stranger in the Empty Night” and Eileen Myles' “Everyday Barf.” Rosen has been exploring the visual properties of words for over 25 years, approaching language as a material to construct with, and to confound, and building word installations that delight in the surfaces of short phrases, words and letterforms. Printed in French fold format, Nau Sea Sea Sick is part of the Four Corners Familiars series that invites contemporary artists to respond to the classics of literature, which also includes editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Franz Kafka's Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor.

Nau Sea Sea Sick (Four Corners Familiars)

Arts & Photography

CRANE, STEPHEN

MANSFIELD, KATHERINE

Myles, Eileen

MOORE. John

Individual Artists

Four Corners Books

Among Hills and Valleys in Western China, first published in 1901, is a detailed and accurate picture of missionary work undertaken by Miss Hannah Davies, who had made it her life's work to tour the Chinese provinces and preach her Christian belief, as well as encouraging local people to build places of worship and also helping those in poverty. Some of the sketches of life and character are extraordinarily descriptive and beautiful, and a remarkable journey is described in this series of letters and journal extracts. There is, amongst other stories, a fascinating account of an assembly addressed by Bishop Cassells, the first Protestant bishop in western China, and his heartfelt pleas to the people to help build a new church. The book is well illustrated, with an introduction by Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop), the nineteenth-century British missionary, travel writer and historian.

Among Hills and Valleys in Western China: Incidents of Missionary Work (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia)

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, first published in 1899, contains the account by the redoubtable Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop) of a journey through central China in 1896-1897. The volume focuses on her travels though the province of Szechuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory. Many of the areas she explored and carefully described were almost unknown to European visitors and had not been mentioned in any earlier English publications. The volume is based on journal letters and the diary written during her journey, and it is generously illustrated with photographs and Chinese drawings. Bishop's work was warmly received in England and praised especially for the information included on agriculture and industry. The Geographical Journal heralded the work as 'undoubtedly one of the most important contributions to English literature on that country'. It remains a key source for late nineteenth-century British perceptions of China.

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory ... Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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