A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Hardcover)

from whitreidtan

Isabella Bird was an inveterate traveller, naturalist, and writer. This might not be an unusual description for women today but Bird was all of these things in the mid-nineteenth century, a time when women's lives were far more constrained than they are today. She chronicled many of her travels i...

from penelopemarzec

Isabella L.Bird was fearless and courageous--and maybe just a little crazy. Back when the west was still rather wild, she traveled around the Rockies--by herself on a borrowed pony. She trotted out in snowstorms and in weather so frigid her eyelids froze together. She described the glorious scene...

from jbarr5

A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains 1873 Mining towns and other adventures on her way home to England. Isobella Byrd traveled on horseback and met quite the variety of colorful characters. Book contains a collection of letters from Isobella to her sister as she describes in very detail her travel...

from SeriousGrace

In what started as letters to her sister Isabella Bird paints vivid pictures of a very young Colorado as she travels from the Sandwich Islands to Estes Park, Colorado. Because the trip to the Hawaiian islands is so fresh in Bird's mind, she can't help but make interesting comparisons between the ...

from setnahkt

Isabella Bird was a middle-aged Victorian-era Englishwoman who apparently hadn't read the middle-aged Victorian-era Englishwoman manual and thus traveled all over the world alone. And rode astride (except when somebody might be watching). Her book narrates her adventures in the Colorado Rockies i...