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Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Isabella Bird's 1878 expedition through Japan, chronicled in 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,' immerses readers in an extraordinary odyssey across the seldom-explored territories of Japan's remote northern and central regions. Breaking away from conventional travel narratives, Bird adopts an unconventional prose style, crafting a captivating tale of her off-the-beaten-path escapades.
Rather than confining herself to the urban bustle, Bird ventures deep...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A NOTORIOUS INDIAN FIGHTER AND GUNMAN,"ROCKY MOUNTAIN" JIM NUGENT HAD A SOFT SPOT IN HIS HEART FOR ONE THING: HIS BEAUTIFUL HOMELAND. IN 1873, HE HE WAS DOING ALL THAT HE COULDTO SEE THAT COLORADO'S ESTES PARK -- HOME OF LONGS PEAK, THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS -- REMAINED PUBLIC LAND.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
At a time when a woman's world wasn't much wider than her own home, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) earned a reputation as one of the Victorian era's most intrepid explorers and writers. Among the Tibetans recounts her rugged passage through the Himalayas by horseback and her four-month sojourn amid "the pleasantest of people." Bird's evocative accounts of Tibetan ceremonies, decorations, costumes, and music, along with her vivid descriptions of palaces,...
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.
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
"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
2006
Description
For most people, the death of Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent is solved. In June of 1874, while out riding through Estes Park, Colorado, with a friend, Nugent was shot and killed by Griff Evans. Case closed. Professor David McIntyre is not most people. When McIntyre finds evidence that Nugent wrote a manuscript soon before his death, he starts to wonder about what it contained. And if it still exists. Convinced the manuscript will shed light on the murder,...
Author
Pub. Date
1970
Description
Isabella Bird began her travels at the age of 40. She travelled to Australia, Hawaii, and the Rockies of Colorado where she rode for weeks, alone among the high peaks. The books she wrote about her American adventures were a sensation in England, and for the rest of her long life Isabella was one of the world's celebrated explorers. She spent most of the next 30 years in the more obscure parts of Asia, visiting Japan and Korea shortly afters they...
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....