Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2)
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : Litres
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040623208
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : Litres
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040623208
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781530879960
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : Volume II (Illustrated)Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, Bird toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. After her marriage, and the death of her husband in 1886, she did missionary work in India and then, in 1890, travelled to little-known parts of Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan in the company of Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army. This came to be the hardest journey of her experience, with extremes of temperature and harsh living conditions for the sixty-year-old, although she was able to provide medical care for the local people. Volume 1 introduces the region, its people, and their customs and includes many evocative anecdotes. It also contains a glossary and maps."
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Estes Park (Colo.)
ISBN :
Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
Author : Isabella Bird
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2018-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781719364195
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan By Isabella Bird This book is an illustrated version of the original Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan by Isabella L. Bird. "The letters of which these volumes are composed embrace the second half of journeys in the East extending over a period of two years. They attempt to be a faithful record of facts and impressions, but were necessarily written in haste at the conclusion of fatiguing marches, and often in circumstances of great discomfort and difficulty, and I relied for their correction in the event of publication on notes made with much care. Unfortunately I was robbed of nearly the whole of these, partly on my last journey in Persia and partly on the Turkish frontier, -a serious loss, which must be my apology to the reader for errors which, without this misfortune, would not have occurred." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Persia and Kurdistan, Persia and Kurdistan book, Persia and Kurdistan Bird
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108014704
Volume 2 of Mrs. Bishop's Journeys concludes the adventure through Kurdistan, containing a passion for travelling that belies it difficulties.
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781530880430
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, complete volume I and II, (Illustrated) Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, Bird toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. After her marriage, and the death of her husband in 1886, she did missionary work in India and then, in 1890, travelled to little-known parts of Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan in the company of Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army. This came to be the hardest journey of her experience, with extremes of temperature and harsh living conditions for the sixty-year-old, although she was able to provide medical care for the local people. Volume 1 introduces the region, its people, and their customs and includes many evocative anecdotes. It also contains a glossary and maps
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Iran
ISBN : 9781590481523
Isabella Bird had never even stepped into the saddle until she was forty two years old in 1872. She went to Hawaii in search of better health and adventure and found both. Bird rode across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, galloped across Japan alone, then explored Tibet on horseback.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 1985
Category : China
ISBN :
In January 1896, at the age of 64, the indomitable Isabella Bird set off to explore the Yangtze River and the lonely mountain region of north-west China. A veteran of twenty years travel in America, Asia and the Near East, it was her last great adventure, but one as full of drama and spectacle as anything that had gone before. Eschewing the leisure enjoyed by England's expatriate community in Shanghai, she was thrilled and occasionally aghast at what she found in the little-known land which lay beyond. Travelling alone by riverboat and basket chair, she made her way almost to the Tibetan border, staying in inns and mission stations, observing with fascination the landscape and customs of the people, surviving the terror of a lynching mob, the hostitily of officials who would block her path and the perils of snow storms at 12,000 feet.
Author : Isabella Lucy Bird
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Iran
ISBN :