A woman ahead of her time, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) ranks among the most adventurous travel writers of her era. In this captivating travelogue, she reports to her sister back home in England on a series of journeys through nineteenth-century Canada and the United States. Bird recounts with passion and sensitivity such sights as wigwams on Prince Edward Island and Quebec's romantic falls of Lorette, in addition to dark encounters with cholera, slavery, and harrowing storms at sea.Bird, whose youth was marred by illness, was advised by her physician to travel. With a budget of 100 pounds from her clergyman father, she ventured off to North America on the first of many journeys. Her later expeditions included forays to the Middle East and Asia, yielding books of discerning observations that have entertained and enlightened readers for over a century.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-13
9780486473093
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95999760
Product Key Features
Author
Isabella Lucy Bird
Publication Name
My First Travels in North America
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
201mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
386g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Isabella Lucy Bird
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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