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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1985
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 10 titles




  • Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was a nineteenthcentury English traveller and writer. She was born in Boroughbridge and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. She was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with various ailments. Much of her ill...



  • "There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of...



  • The first recorded account of Japan by a Westerner, this 1878 book captures a lifestyle that has nearly vanished. The author traveled 1,400 miles by horse, ferry, foot, and jinrikisha. Isabella Lucy Bird (1831â€"1904) was a pioneering woman adventure...






  • The Complete Works of Isabella Bird Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She w...




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    Excerpt: ...guide. I raised it to a scream, but it was lost in the thunder of the cataract. The negro saw my incertitude and extended his hand. I shuddered even there as I took hold of it, not quite free from the juvenile idea that "the black comes o...






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    'There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird' SPECTATOR'Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits' RUBY WAX, GUARDIAN 'Th...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Isabella Lucy Bird has published 10 books.

Isabella Lucy Bird does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Complete Works of Isabella Bird, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Isabella Lucy Bird, Yangtze Valley and Beyond, was published in December 1985.

No. Isabella Lucy Bird does not write books in series.