Author: BARR, PAT
Title: A Curious Life for a Lady : The Story of Isabella Bird
Description: London, Penguin. 1986, Reprint. (ISBN: 0140079211) Trade Paperback. Book, The travel biography of Isabella Bird.. who spent much of her first forty years of her life as a pious Victorian parson's daughter studying hymns. It was therefore surprising that she then burst out of such homely confinements to become a tireless international traveller, usually alone. Most of her travels were to parts of Asia where European influence was not well established. l347p plates bibliography index. Near Fine.

Keywords: 0140079211 Isabella Bird Travels Women


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