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Englishwoman in America (Hardcover)
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Englishwoman in America (Hardcover)
Series: Travel in America
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Isabella Bird was one of the most famous and admired travel writers
of the nineteenth century. The first woman to be elected to the
Royal Geographical Society, she published eight volumes of travel
writings which documented her lifetime of travels to every
continent. Often ill as a child, at age eighteen she underwent
partially successful spinal surgery to remove a tumor from her
spine, yet continued to suffer from a series of ailments. Bird's
doctor adviced travel as a cure, so in 1854 she was given one
hundred pounds by her father and told she could travel until her
money ran out. Leaving Liverpool in June, she travelled to Halifax,
Nova Scotia to visit cousins. Becoming restless, Bird undertook
wider travels, covering nearly 6,000 miles, visiting Maine, Ohio,
Illinois, Michigan, Quebec, New York, and Massachusetts. She
detailed her travels in letters to her sister which went on to
become the basis for her first book, The Englishwoman in America,
published in 1856. This first trip overseas, and the resultant
book, set Bird up for a highly successful career as a traveller and
writer.
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