Description: Unbeaten tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar.She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Early life: Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866). Boroughbridge was her fathers first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora. Bird moved several times during her childhood. In 1832, Reverend Bird was appointed curate in Maidenhead, where Isabellas brother Edward was born and died in his first year. Because of her fathers ill health Birds family moved again in 1834 to Tattenhall in Cheshire, a living presented to him by his cousin Dr John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester, where in the same year Birds sister, Henrietta, was born. Isabella was outspoken from an early age. When six years old, she confronted the local MP for South Cheshire: "Sir Malpas de Grey Tatton Egerton, while he was campaigning, asking him "did you tell my father my sister was so pretty because you wanted his vote?" Edward Birds controversial views against Sunday labour caused his congregation to dwindle, and in 1842 he requested a transfer to St. Thomass in Birmingham. Here again objections were raised which culminated in the ministers being pelted "with stones, mud, and insults". In 1848, the family moved again and, after spending some time in Eastbourne, took up residence in Wyton in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire.) From early childhood Bird was frail, suffering from a spinal complaint, nervous headaches, and insomnia. The doctor recommended an open-air life, and consequently, Bird learned to ride in infancy, and later to row. Her only education came from her parents: her father was a keen botanist, and Isabella studied flora with him, and her mother taught her daughters an eclectic mix of subjects. Isabella became an avid reader.However, her "bright intelligence, [and] an extreme curiosity as to the world outside, made it impossible for her brain and her nature generally to be narrowed and stiffened by the strictly evangelical atmosphere of her childhood". Birds first publication was at the age of 16, a pamphlet addressing Free Trade v Protectionism after which she continued writing articles for various periodicals. In 1850, a "fibrous tumour was removed from the neighbourhood of the spine". Bird continued to be unwell, suffering from unspecified ailments resulting in lassitude and insomnia. The family spent six summers in Scotland in an effort to improve her health. Doctors urged a sea voyage and in 1854 Birds life of travelling began when the opportunity arose for her to sail to the United States accompanying her second cousins to their family home. Her father "gave her [£]100 and leave to stay away as long as it lasted". Birds "bright descriptive letters" written home to her relations formed the basis for her first book, An Englishwoman in America (1856), published by Murray. John Murray, "as well as being Isabellas lifelong publisher, ... [became] one of her closest friends". Details ISBN 1544271611 ISBN-13 9781544271613 Title Unbeaten tracks in Japan Author Isabella L. Bird Format Paperback Year 2017 Pages 178 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform GE_Item_ID:128867935; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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Book Title: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan : an Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior : Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé by: Isabella L. Bird ( Volume II) : Japan ,Description and Travel (ILLUSTRATED)
Number of Pages: 178 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Isabella L. Bird
Item Width: 8 in
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