LibriVox: The Englishwoman in America
1 2017-12-20T16:38:43+00:00 Christina M. Spiker e61b5e490351847c25b28288e317e5248c8241f0 1 1 LibriVox recording of The Englishwoman in America by Isabella Lucy Bird. Read by Sibella Denton. Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chicago, Prince Edward Island, and Cincinatti. Her observations on the trials and tribulations of the journeys are astute, if formed by her place and time in history. Adventures with pickpockets, omnibuses, cholera, and rat invested hotels deter her not. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording at Libravox.org. plain 2017-12-20T16:38:43+00:00 Internet Archive englishwoman_in_america_sd_librivox audio non fiction isabella bird journey travels audio books librivox Christina M. Spiker e61b5e490351847c25b28288e317e5248c8241f0This page is referenced by:
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Isabella's Bird's Writing Around the World
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Isabella Bird embarked on a journey to the United States in 1854, and the letters that she sent home to her sister formed the basis of her first book, An Englishwoman in America (1856), published by her lifelong publisher and friend, John Murray. This trip would mark only the beginning of Bird's travels. Throughout her life she ventured far and wide and wrote on her vibrant experiences of foreign locales. Some of her destinations include the United States, Australia, Hawai'i, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India, Tibet, Turkey, Persia, Kurdistan, and Morocco.
An open-source bibliography of her travelogues include:
- The Englishwoman in America (1856)
- The Aspects of Religion in the United States of America (1859)
- Notes on Old Edinburgh (1869)
- The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875)
- A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)
- Unbeaten Tracks in Japan vol. 1, vol. 2 (1880)
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (1883)
- Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891)
- Among the Tibetans (1894)
- Korea and Her Neighbours (1898)
- The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899)
- Chinese Pictures: Notes on Photographs Made in China (1900)
The map below displays the diversity of countries that Bird wrote about in both books and articles.
