Anna M. Stoddart

The Life of Isabella Bird

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This life of Victorian solo traveller Isabella Bird reveals a remarkable and determined woman, who defied contemporary expectations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781108028967
• ISBN-10: 1108028969
• Artikelnr.: 33272851

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Parentage and inheritance
2. First travels and publications
3. Edinburgh and work
4. In journeyings oft
5. The wide east
6. 'An taon bheannicht' (the blessed one)
7. Marriage
8. Loss
9. 'Through many lands'
10. Nations that sit in darkness
11. Public work
12. The far east
13. The changing east
14. Last journeys
15. 'I am going home'
Appendix
Index.