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This second volume of Isabella Bird’s account of her experiences travelling through Persia, Kurdistan and Turkey brings the trip to a close. The work is an important document in the…

Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop, 1831-1904) wrote best-selling travel books on America, Hawaii, the Far East and Persia. This two-volume work, published in 1898, arose from Bird’s travels in Korea and…

In 1875 Isabella Bird published this account of six months in Hawaii. During this time she explored the islands on horseback, visiting volcanos, climbing mountains, and living with the natives…

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The book is a compilation of…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

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Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already…