A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird

Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel NarrativesĪmazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian AdventurerĬelebrating the Land: Women’s Nature Writings, 1850 – 1991 Korea and her Neighbors: A Narrative of Travel, With an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the CountryĬhinese Pictures: notes on photographs made in Chinaīooks containing reference to Isabella BirdĬelebrated Women Travelers of the Nineteenth CenturyĪ Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella BirdĪmidst the Gold Dust: Women Who Forged the WestĪhead of Her Time: A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich IslandsĪustralia Felix: Impressions of Victoria and Melbourne Pen and Pencil sketches Among the Outer Hebrides The Aspects of Religion in the United States of America In 1892 she became the first woman elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Willing to endure rough conditions and harsh weather in the spirit of travel, Bird became one of the foremost travel writers of all time yet she remained a modest woman. Her first published books, “The Englishwoman in America” (1856) and “Aspects of Religion in the United States” (1859), were both best-sellers and described her first experience in our “new world.” Fascinated by Colorado, she wrote A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, which vividly portrays her journey up Longs Peak, her two-room cabin home in Estes Park, and the 3,000-mile horseback trip she took across the Front Range. Isabella Bird spent much of her life as a world traveler.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird