Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.

Painting an intimate portrait of the "Wild West," Bird wrote eloquently of flora and fauna, isolated settlers and assorted refugees from civilization, vigilance committees, lynchings, and the manners among the men she encountered in the ...

"Unbeaten Tracks in Japan" from Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop. Nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831-1904).

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

In 1880, Isabella Bird visited the Malay Peninsula - romantically dubbed "The Golden Chersonese" - and was still able to refer to it as an almost unknown land.

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.