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Ladys Life In Rocky Mountains
Terrific book of courage and adventure: Isabella Bird's adventures in the 1870's west are amazing. She travels courageously across the Rockies by horseback, alone, as a woman, and dressed in garb which should have resulted in her death from exposure. Yet [... more]
CDN$16.00
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Great Journeys Adventures In The Rocky Mountains
Author: Isabella Bird Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780141025346 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0141025344 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2007-02-19 Release Date: 2007-02-27 [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Letters to Henrietta
Author: Isabella Bird Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780719560477 ISBN: 0719560470 Number Of Pages: 356 Publication Date: 2002-07-01 [... more]
CDN$59.95
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Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm ...
Quite enjoyable and I regretted the book ended: The steamer Nevada left Auckland New Zealand in January of 1873. Onboard are a number of travelers including Isabella Bird, who is traveling for her health. When another passenger takes ill, his Mother asks [... more]
CDN$15.94
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The Honorable Visitors
Literary perspectives on Japan: In "The Honorable Visitors," Donald Richie has combed through the writings of illustrious visitors to Japan, collecting their overall impressions and quoting their original writings as much as possible. Richie [... more]
CDN$25.29
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Fascinating 19th Century Woman: This book is actually a series of letters written in the 1870's by Isabella Bird, an intrepid Scotswoman,to her sister. Japan had "opened" to the west only some 10 years earlier and she was determined to visit [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China
A view of Chinese womenýs entrepreneurial spirit: This book is a memoir of a decade past written following a Rockerfeller grant to study the women's emancipation movement in SW PRChina, to later compare and contrast with a similar study in Taipei, [... more]
CDN$24.95
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They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, ...
From Amazon.com: They Went Whistling is Barbara Holland's account of history's outstanding, and largely forgotten, females. The women revealed within these pages were driven by passion--for religion, humanity, adventure, politics, and knowledge--that [... more]
CDN$16.50
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