Isabella Bird, Entdeckerin, Schriftstellerin, Fotografin, wurde 1831 in der englischen Grafschaft Yorkshire geboren. Die Tochter eines Pastors hat schon früh Reisen als Heilmittel für ihre angeschlagene Gesundheit entdeckt. Sie führten sie nach Japan, Tibet, Persien, Kurdistan und in die USA. Sie veröffentlichte acht Bücher. « A Lady »s Life in the Rocky Mountains » erschien 1879 bei John Murray in New York und London und wurde sofort zum Bestseller – heute zählt das Buch zu den Klassikern unter den Reiseberichten. Isabella Bird wurde 1892 als erste Frau in die Royal Geographical Society aufgenommen.
Klaudia Ruschkowski, geboren 1959 in Dortmund, lebt in Volterra, Italien und in Berlin. Sie ist Dramaturgin, Autorin, Kuratorin und Übersetzerin. Sie übersetzte aus dem Italienischen und Englischen, zuletzt Etel Adnan, Guiseppe Zigaina und Vincenco Latronico.
Susanne Gretter, studierte Anglistik, Romanistik und Politische Wissenschaft in Tübingen und Berlin. Sie lebt und arbeitet als Verlagslektorin in Berlin. Sie ist Herausgeberin der Reihe « Die kühne Reisende ».
31 Ebooks par Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
The first-hand account of an intrepid woman’s exploration of Japan’s interior in 1878. Isabella Bird (1831–1904) is perhaps best described as an explorer. Over the course of her life she traveled fro …
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Isabella Bird: Korea & Her Neighbours
In Korea and Her Neighbours, written in two volumes between 1894 and 1897, Isabella Bird documents one of the most critical and interesting periods of Korean history. Violently torn from centuries of …
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€9.99
Isabella Bird: Buddhist Directory
In 1878, a decade after Japan was launched into the world of modern nations by the Meiji restoration of 1868, Isabella Lucy Bird set off alone to explore the interior. Ninety years ago Japan was stil …
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Isabella L. Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
‘A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains’ is one of the many accounts of Isabella L. Bird’s amazing travels and adventures. At the age of twenty-two in 1854 Isabella left a comfortable life in England f …
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Isabella Bird: Durch die Wildnis der Rocky Mountains
Die Engländerin Isabella Bird ist 23 Jahre alt, als ein Arzt ihr Reisen gegen ein hartnäckiges Rückenleiden empfiehlt. Ihr Vater schickt sie 1854 mit dem Schiff zu Verwandten nach Nordamerika. Von do …
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Isabella Bird: The Englishwoman in America
‘The Englishwoman in America’ is a wonderful travelogue that offers a lively and personal glimpse into mid-nineteenth-century America. In 1856, Isabella Bird published ‘The Englishwoman in America’, …
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Isabella Bird: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
‘Unbeaten Tracks in Japan’ is a travel diary written by Isabella Bird of her trip to Japan in 1878, at the age of 47. It was first published in English in 1881. Isabella Lucy Bird (15 October 1831 – …
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Isabella Bird: Among The Tibetans
This little know gem by the doyenne of women travellers in the East describes a journey on horseback through the Himalayas and into Tibet, where she spent four months. Enchanted by the Tibetans who s …
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€32.15
Isabella Bird: Among The Tibetans
This little know gem by the doyenne of women travellers in the East describes a journey on horseback through the Himalayas and into Tibet, where she spent four months. Enchanted by the Tibetans who s …
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€32.00
Bird: Unbeaten Tracks In Japan
The author’s account of travelling through Japan in 1878. This is a narrative of travels in Japan communicated via letters. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an in …
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€47.58
Bird: Unbeaten Tracks In Japan
The author’s account of travelling through Japan in 1878. This is a narrative of travels in Japan communicated via letters. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an in …
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€47.79
Isabella Bird: Adventures in the Rocky Mountains
Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Terr …
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€4.99
Isabella Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Like the glorious afterglow so often described in A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879), Isabella Birds impassioned travelogue continues to delight us as it recounts escapades of blizzards, griz …
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€3.49
Isabella Bird: The Hawaiian Archipelago (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Published in 1875, this account of Bird’s visit to the Hawaiian islands consists of her letters home to her sister. As well as providing an unequaled glimpse into a vanished Hawaii, the letters …
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Isabella Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Like the glorious afterglow so often described in A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879), Isabella Bir …
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€3.49
Isabella Bird: Among the Tibetans
A fascinating look at the people of Tibet by 19th Century travel writer Isabella Bird. …
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€2.57
Isabella Bird: The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither
The Golden Chersonese is a travel book written by Isabella Bird, the greatest travel writer of the 19th century, and maybe of all time. It recounts her travels in 1883 through southern China and into …
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€7.49
Isabella Bird: The Complete Works of Isabella Bird
The Complete Works of Isabella Bird Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded t …
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Isabella Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The book is a compilation of letters that Isabella Bird wrote to …
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€1.99
Isabella Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
In ‘A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains’ by Isabella Bird, readers are taken on a literary journey through the remote and rugged landscapes of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. Bird’s ac …
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€1.99
Isabella Bird: Japón inexplorado
Por primera vez en castellano el relato de un viaje asombroso realizado en solitario por una mujer que hizo época al retratar los misterios del inexplorado Japón del siglo XIX. Aislado, cerrado a los …
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€11.99
Isabella Bird: Six Months In Hawaii
First published in 2005. Six Months in Hawaii , set in the islands in 1873, is the compelling account of the true life adventures that transformed a quiet English lady into the darling and dashing wo …
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€28.30
Isabella Bird: Six Months In Hawaii
First published in 2005. Six Months in Hawaii , set in the islands in 1873, is the compelling account of the true life adventures that transformed a quiet English lady into the darling and dashing wo …
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€28.34
Isabella Bird: Among the Tibetans
Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties …
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€7.49
Isabella Bird: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella Bird’s ‘A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains’ is a captivating travelogue that recounts her adventurous journey through the rugged terrain of the American West in the late 19th century. Bird …
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€1.99
Isabella Bird: Korea and Her Neighbours
First published in 2003. Isabella Bird’s account of her journeys in Korea in 1898 represents one of the very rare accounts of that country in the latter part of the nineteenth century. At that time K …
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€56.19
Isabella Bird: Korea and Her Neighbours
First published in 2003. Isabella Bird’s account of her journeys in Korea in 1898 represents one of the very rare accounts of that country in the latter part of the nineteenth century. At that time K …
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€56.13
Isabella Bird: Golden Chersonese
Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from J …
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€51.47
Isabella Bird: Golden Chersonese
Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from J …
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€51.67
Isabella Bird: Six Months In Hawaii
Six Months In Hawaii, set in the islands in 1873, is the compelling account of the true life adventures that transformed a quiet English lady into the daring and dashing world traveller Isabella Bird …
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€153.64
Isabella Bird: Six Months In Hawaii
Six Months In Hawaii, set in the islands in 1873, is the compelling account of the true life adventures that transformed a quiet English lady into the daring and dashing world traveller Isabella Bird …
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€153.00