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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 · 5,712 ratings · 871 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 — 3,850 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 — 163 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 — 50 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

June 2021 Old School Classic Group Read Poll

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 1722, 239 pages

49 votes, 19.8%

Aesop's Fables by Aesop, -560, 300 pages

44 votes, 17.8%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830, 608 pages

33 votes, 13.4%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, 1899, 562 pages

24 votes, 9.7%

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

24 votes, 9.7%

Basil by Wilkie Collins, 1852, 282 pages

19 votes, 7.7%

The Saga of the Volsungs by Anonymous, 1275, 145 pages

18 votes, 7.3%

The Odd Women by George Gissing, 1893, 432 pages

15 votes, 6.1%

Life Is a Dream: Pedro Calderon de La Barca by Pedro Calderón de la Barca,1636, 96 pages

14 votes, 5.7%

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself by Olaudah Equiano, 1789, 256 pages

7 votes, 2.8%

247 total votes

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