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A great lady traveller's best known work Isabella Bird was born in
1831 in Cheshire, England became one of a distinguished group of
female travellers famous in the nineteenth century-a time when it
was considered that a lady's place should be confined to the home.
Isabella travelled and explored the world extensively and became a
notable writer and natural historian. This book, her fourth and
arguably both her best and best known, concerns a journey of 800
miles through the Rocky Mountains. Isabella made the trip on
horseback, using a conventional saddle. The American west was still
wild in 1873 and Isabella's accounts of the landscape and its
frontier's folk are important historical records. Particularly
interesting is her relationship with her 'dear desperado, ' the
justifiably named Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent who was shot dead a
year after their acquaintance. Leonaur editions are newly typeset
and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and
hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature
gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel
literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a
young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer
interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around
the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into
the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized today as a
pioneering woman whose contributions to travel writing,
exploration, and philanthropy are immeasurable. In 1872-after a
year of sailing from Britain to Australia and Hawaii-Isabella Bird
journeyed by boat to San Francisco before making her way over land
through California and Wyoming to the Colorado Territory. There,
she befriended an outdoorsman named Rocky Mountain Jim, who guided
her throughout the vast wilderness of Colorado and accompanied her
during a journey of over 800 miles. Traveling on foot and on
horseback-Bird was an experienced and skillful rider-the two formed
a curious but formidable pair, eventually reaching the 14,259 foot
(4346 m) summit of Longs Peak, making Bird one of the first women
to accomplish the feat. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains,
Bird's most iconic work, was a bestseller upon publication, and has
since inspired generations of readers. With a beautifully designed
cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of
Isabella Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a classic
of American literature and travel writing reimagined for modern
readers.
After the success of The Englishwoman in America (also reissued in
this series), the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831-1904) continued
her travels - first to Scotland, then to Australia and Hawaii -
before returning to the United States and taking up residence in
what was then the newest state, Colorado. Her adventures here -
recorded as letters to her sister which she artlessly tells the
reader were never intended for publication - included riding alone
across the prairie, trying to help a family dying of cholera in the
face of indifference from the local inhabitants, a sight of the
invalids who were coming to Denver in huge numbers to be cured by
the mountain air, and an encounter (if it was nothing more) with
that western archetype, the one-eyed, romantic, courteous,
poetry-declaiming outlaw, who by the following year was 'in a
dishonoured grave, with a rifle bullet in his brain'.
In 1856, Isabella Bird published The Englishwoman in America, the
first of what would be many books of her travels around the world.
Adopting a tone of aloof bemusement, she describes in detail the
hardships and annoyances of her travels by sea from England to
Halifax, and on the road to Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago. The
book's 20 chapters are full of keenly observed and entertainingly
told stories of pickpockets and luggage thieves, greasy hotels, and
Americans who are very polite, but have the unfortunate habit of
spitting on the floor. Bird admits to sharing the regrettably
prejudiced view the English have of America, but nevertheless finds
much to like and admire in this new country bustling with
ethnically diverse immigrants full of energy and bravado. The
Englishwoman in America is a wonderful travelogue that offers a
lively and personal glimpse into mid-nineteenth-century America.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel
literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a
young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer
interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around
the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into
the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized today as a
pioneering woman whose contributions to travel writing,
exploration, and philanthropy are immeasurable. In 1872—after a
year of sailing from Britain to Australia and Hawaii—Isabella
Bird journeyed by boat to San Francisco before making her way over
land through California and Wyoming to the Colorado Territory.
There, she befriended an outdoorsman named Rocky Mountain Jim, who
guided her throughout the vast wilderness of Colorado and
accompanied her during a journey of over 800 miles. Traveling on
foot and on horseback—Bird was an experienced and skillful
rider—the two formed a curious but formidable pair, eventually
reaching the 14,259 foot (4346 m) summit of Longs Peak, making Bird
one of the first women to accomplish the feat. A Lady's Life in the
Rocky Mountains, Bird’s most iconic work, was a bestseller upon
publication, and has since inspired generations of readers. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Isabella Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rocky
Mountains is a classic of American literature and travel writing
reimagined for modern readers.
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