Bishop lucy bird (15 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Korea and her Neighbours. A narrative of travel, with an account of the recent vicissitudes and present position of the country . With maps and illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coastal regions that comprise South and East Asia. Other works focus on cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. These books help readers understand the forces that shaped the ancient civilisations and influenced the modern countries of Asia. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Bishop, Lucy Bird.; br/b/b 1898.br/b/b 2 vol. ; 8º.br/b/b 010056.g.4.br/.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 1. Auflage. Cloth, 1st Edition, Vol.2 only, with maps, (In ENGLISH language) Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was an English traveller and writer. She was born in Boroughbridge and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. She was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with various ailments. Much of her illness may have been psychogenic, for when she was doing exactly what she wanted she was almost never ill. Her real desire was to travel. She studied medicine and resolved to travel as a missionary. She visited missions in India, Persia, Kurdistan and Turkey. Her final journey was to China and Korea. Many of her works are compiled from letters she wrote home to her sister in Scotland. Binding in dark blue/light blue cloth with golden lettering on spine and front, corners slightly bumped. 409 pp., names and a stamp of previous owners, in stock, sofort lieferbar.…

8vo (188 x 122mm), pp. xv, [1 (illustrations)], 318, [2 (publisher's advertisements)], 32 (further publisher's advertisements dated January 1894); wood-engraved frontispiece, one folding map by J.D. Cooper, 10 wood-engraved illustrations and plans, 2 full page, and letterpress tables in the text; original green cloth, upper board with blind border and central design in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, black endpapers, most quires unopened; extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, nonetheless an exceptionally bright, largely unopened copy.Seventh edition. As Bishop states in her preface, 'I was travelling for health, when circumstances induced me to land on the group, and the benefit which I derived from the climate tempted me to remain for nearly seven months. During that time the necessity of leading a life of open air and exercise as a means of recovery, led me to travel on horseback to and fro through the islands, exploring the interior, ascending the highest mountains, visiting the active volcanoes and remote regions that are known to few even of the residents, living among the natives, and otherwise seeing Hawaiian life in all its phases' (p. ix). Bishop's The Hawaiian Archipelago is composed of thirty-one letters she wrote to her sister Henrietta and was first published in 1875; this edition follows the text of the revised second edition, which appeared in 1876 with a new preface and an appendix on 'Leprosy and the Leper Settlement on Molokal', as well as other revisions and amendments. Hawaiian National Bibliography judges that it is '[o]ne of the classic (and most often quoted) books on the Hawaiian Islands', adding that, '[i]t was immensely popular and went through many editions'. For the 1st ed., cf. Hawaiian National Bibliography 3070; Theakstone p. 23; Wayward Women p. 81. …

Small 8vo. Pp. 159. With 21 woodcut illustrations (of which 13 full page) by Edward Whymper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt illustrations, lightly rubbed and spine faded. First edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), a much-loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. In 1889 Isabella travelled from Srinagar to Ladakh via Zoji-la, Leh, Sassir-la, Depsang and the Karakorum. Yakushi (1984) B169.…

Pp. xiv, 381; (vi), 409. With two fronts, two folding maps and 34 illustrations, of which eleven full-page. Publisher's blue decorated cloth, stamped in gilt, lightly discoloured. Bookplates. First edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This account covers Bird's two-year journey through little-known parts of Persia and eastern Asia Minor. She joined Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army on a rough journey from Baghdad to Tehran. After visiting the Bakhtiari tribes of south-west Persia, she continued her journey north through Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, to Trebizond (Trabzon) on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. One map depicts her journey and the other the Bakhtiari country. Robinson pp. 81-3.…

Pp. xii, (ii), 410, (2); viii, (ii), 365, (2). With two frontispieces, one folding coloured map and numerous illustrations throughout the text, many made from the author's photographs. Publisher's decorated gilt cloth, t. e. g., others untrimmed, lightly rubbed at extremities. First American edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This narrative deals with her travels in China in 1897 along the Yangtze River from Shanghai visiting Hangzhou (Zhejiang province), Yichang (Hubei), Wan Hsien (Hebei), Nanjing (Kiangsu), and several places in Sichuan province. Her book is based on her letters and diary notes, and the illustrations are mainly taken from her own photographs. A lovely copy. Cordier BS 355. Robinson pp. 81-83. Yakushi (1984) B170.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 557, [1]. with half-title & tipped-in errata slip. folding colour map & numerous text illus. (many full-page, incl. frontis.). original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, rebacked with spine mounted (light wear to joints & extremities, errata slip browned). First Edition. The last published work of one of the most famous of all women travellers. Isabella visited Hangchow, Shanghai, Kankow, Ichang, Kuei Fu, Wan Hsien, San Tsan-Pu, Lian-Shan Hsien, Hsia-Shan-Po, Siao-Kiao, Hsieh-Tien-Tze, Paoning Fu, Sin-Tien-Tze, Tze-Tung Hsien, Kuan Hsien, Chengtu, Sin-Wen-Ping, Li-Fan Ting, Tsa-Ku-Lao, Chengtu Fu, Luchow, and Chung-King Fu. Included are chapters on the Hangchow medical mission hospitals, Chinese charities, opium, and the Protestant missions in China. Cordier, Sinica, 355. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 81-83.…

Thirty-eight lines of text, on both sides of a 12mo leaf (dimensions roughly 17.5 x 11.5 cm). Text clear and complete, good on lightly aged, spotted and creased paper. One 0.5 cm closed tear not affecting text. The penultimate page is headed '5' and the text begins abruptly. Sixteen lines (all but the last three) of the first page describe ten days spent by Bird as MacLeod's guest in Fez. He describes her as an 'altogether delightful' guest. She is 'the most intelligent woman' he has ever met, 'as gentle & womanly and almost meek in manner as one could imagine'. She is however 'possessed of an energy of mind which staggers one'. He wonders that she has been able to do '1200 miles in Morocco [she had just crossed the Atlas Mountains] burdened with 71 years, a weak spine, a split knee cap, and a partially disabled arm.' He wishes she could have stayed with him the whole summer, and hopes that if his correspondent has not met her he will do so. His assistant has departed for England, but 'it won't be so utterly lonely as I've known it - when sometimes one didn't see a European face (save one's own in the glass!) for three or four weeks at a stretch!' Sends regards to common acquaintances. In a postscript he apologises for 'the sobriety of this letter. It has no atrocities by the natives or adventures & escapes of the writer - nor anything which the proper kind of letter from Barbary ought to have. - Better luck next time I hope.' See Image.…

New York, Putnam, and London: John Murray. 1900. Two volumes, 8vo. Original publisher's blue pictorial gilt-stamped cloth, lettered and gilt, top edges gilt; pp. xii, [2], 410, [2, advertisements]; [2], vii, [2], 305, [2, advertisements]; photographic frontispieces with tissue guards, photographic illustrations in the text several full-page, after Bishop et al., one colour-printed folding lithographic map with the author's route in red; minimal rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.First two-volume edition, after the UK one-volume edition of the previous year.On 10 January 1896, the 64-year-old Isabella Bishop left the Shanghai Consulate aboard the Poyang on an 8,000 mile round trip via the upper reaches of the Yangzte river. The journey, continued after the first 1,000 miles by means of native boats and overland from Wan-Hsien, proved full of incident, and Bird's narrative offers first-hand details of regions that remain of interest. The penultimate chapter is devoted to the opium poppy and its use. 'At all times the beautiful Papaver somniferum has been regarded as the enemy of China. There are no apologists for the use of opium except among foreigners' (vol. I. p. 295). Although The Yangtze Valley and Beyond was Isabella Bishop's last book, 'it recounted the most remarkable of her journeys' (ODNB).Cordier, Sinica col. 355; Theakstone p. 23; Wayward Women p. 82; Yakushi (3rd ed.) B-382.…