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"I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh."

In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened... Read Full Overview

First published serially and then into a book in 1879, "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" is one of the many accounts of Isabella L. Bird's amazing travels and adventures. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1831, Bird was never formally educated and was often sickly as a child,... Read Full Overview

Dressed practically and riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she covered over 800 miles in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. Her letters to her sister, first printed in the magazine Leisure Hour,... Read Full Overview

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world... Read Full Overview

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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a collection of letters Isabella wrote to her sister Henrietta, describing her life in the Rocky Mountains in the 19th century.
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Includes the Original Illustrations

"A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" book has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication. "I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way! A strictly North... Read Full Overview

A cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had embarked upon a trip that called for as much stamina as would have been expected of an explorer or anthropologist -- and she was neither Possessing a prodigious amount of curiosity... Read Full Overview

Isabella L. Bird most famous book is probably A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains . Bird's time in the Rockies was enlivened especially by her acquaintance with Jim Nugent, a textbook outlaw with one eye and an affinity for violence and poetry. "A man any woman might love but... Read Full Overview

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a work by Isabella L. Bird now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way A strictly North American beauty-snow- splotched mountains, huge pines, red -woods, sugar pines, silver spruce; a crystalline... Read Full Overview

Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS, was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar.

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 letters, that Isabella Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta. The book was printed, in October, 1879.Isabella Lucy... Read Full Overview