thomas philbrick editor (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Lakeside Press, 362 pages, index, illlustrated. Minor shelf wear, gilt top-edge has slight scratching, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This book offers an Englishwoman's personal glimpse into mid-nineteenth-century America.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover with green cloth over boards, gilt lettering and insignia on cover and spine. Corners unbumped, cloth and lettering pristine. Roughly 7 inches long by 4 inches wide. Title page dated December 2018. Copyright page dated only 2018. Part of the Lakeside Classics Communications collection. lii + 346 pages. Includes publisher's preface, historical introduction by Thomas Philbrick, author's preface, notes, index, and many colorful illustrations and maps throughout the text. Pages clean and bright, images clear. Binding neat and tight. Please email us with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Format is approximately 4.25 inches by 7 inches. xliv, 372 pages. Illustrations (Many with color). Notes. Index. This is one of the Lakeside Classics (Number 110), and is a reprint of a work first published in 1856. Color frontis. Color map. Includes List of Illustrations, Historical Introduction,The Voyage Out; Halifax and and Journey Across Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island; To the Stars and Stripes; Through New England to Boston; All Aboard the Railroad Cars; Cincinnati--The Queen City of the West; The Mississippi and Chicago; To Toronto by Way of Detroit; Upper Canada; Niagara Falls; By Steamer to Montreal and Quebec The French Canadian Countryside; Re-entring the States; New York: The Empire City; Heading Home: New Haven, Boston, and Departure; Also includes Index and Image Credits. Also includes Illustrations of Niagara Falls from goat Island; Isabella Bird; Map: Isabella Bird's North American Tour; Isabella Bird Bishop in Manchu dress, and other illustrations. [There are 42 Image Credits]. Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. After an illness, doctors urged a sea voyage and in 1854 Bird's life of traveling began when the opportunity arose for her to sail to the United States, accompanying her second cousins to their family home. Her father "gave her [£]100 and leave to stay away as long as it lasted". Bird's "bright descriptive letters" written home to her relations formed the basis for her first book, An Englishwoman in America (1856), published by Murray. John Murray, "as well as being Isabella's lifelong publisher, . [became] one of her closest friends" Reprint Edition, presumed first printing thus.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 926 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. reprinted edition. 902 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.