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Isabella Lucy Bird

Born

in Boroughbridge, The United Kingdom

October 15, 1831

Died

October 07, 1904

Genre

Travel, Nonfiction

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Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop (October 15, 1831 – October 7, 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveller, writer, and a natural historian.

Works:
* The Englishwoman in America (1856)
* Pen and Pencil Sketches Among The Outer Hebrides (published in The Leisure Hour) (1866)
* The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875)
* The Two Atlantics (published in The Leisure Hour) (1876)
* Australia Felix: Impressions of Victoria and Melbourne (published in The Leisure Hour) (1877)
* A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)
* Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
* Sketches In The Malay Peninsula (published in The Leisure Hour) (1883)
* The Golden Chersonese and the way Thither (1883)
* A Pilgrimage To Sinai (published in The Leisure Hour) (1886)
* Journeys in Persia ...more

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Isabella Lucy Bird’s books

Average rating: 3.91 · 5,714 ratings · 872 reviews · 124 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird, Daniel J. Boorstin (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 3,851 ratings — published 1879 — 378 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unbeaten Tracks in Japan 3.83 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1885 — 179 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes 3.90 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1875 — 178 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures in the Rocky Mountains 3.75 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1879 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among the Tibetans 3.48 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1894 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Englishwoman in America 3.70 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1856 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Chersonese: A 19th-Century Englishwoman's Travels in Singapore and the Malay Peninsula 3.84 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1883 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Korea and Her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country 3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1898 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yangtze Valley and Beyond by Isabella Lucy Bird, Graham Earnshaw (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1985 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 1: Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor) 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1891 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Isabella Lucy Bird (?)

“I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.”
― Isabella Bird, Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

tags: horseback-riding, mountains, travel

35 likes

“Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.”
― Isabella L. Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

tags: culture, history, japan

10 likes

“Everything suggests a beyond.”
― Isabella L. Bird, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

tags: everything, place, travel

6 likes

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Polls

December 2020 Old School Nominations

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare 1623, 279 pages

66 votes, 26.5%

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann 1816, 84 pages

57 votes, 22.9%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 pages

40 votes, 16.1%

The Warden by Anthony Trollope 1855, 336 pages

39 votes, 15.7%

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird 1879, 282 pages

20 votes, 8.0%

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani 1898, 424 pages

19 votes, 7.6%

The Egoist by George Meredith 1879, 608 pages

8 votes, 3.2%

249 total votes

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