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Adventures in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
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 wor ...Show more
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. Bird
34.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
She wrote 23 letters describing her adventures to her sister Hennie in Scotland, and named the collection The Golden Chersonese after the ancient name given to the Malay Peninsula by the Greek scholar, Ptolemy. Her detailed descriptions of the Malay Peninsula in the 1870s are in startling contrast to pr ...Show more
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