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"The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither" from Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop. Nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831-1904).

Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore where the British Colonial... Read Full Overview

The book "" The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations... Read Full Overview

Sketches of travel in the Malayan Peninsula "There never was a more perfect traveler than Miss Bird....Interesting extracts could be made from every page of the book....One of the cleverest books of travel of the year." -The New York Times "It is sometimes said that, in this... Read Full Overview

This is an evocative account, first published in 1883, of the final expedition to the East by Isabella Bird (1831-1904), who was one of the most famous Victorian female explorers, and the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Geographical Society. The Golden Chersonese is the... Read Full Overview

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Isabella Lucy Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In... Read Full Overview

The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither

The Golden Chersonese is a travel book written by Isabella Bird, the greatest travel writer of the 19th century, and maybe of all time. It recounts her travels in 1883 through southern China and into the interior of the Malay Peninsula- which in the age of Ancient Greece and... Read Full Overview

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