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A Curious Life for a Lady : The Story of Isabella Bird Pat Barr
- Author: Pat Barr
- Published Date: 12 Jul 2011
- Publisher: FABER & FABER
- Language: English
- Book Format: Paperback::356 pages, ePub, Audiobook
- ISBN10: 0571277438
- Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
- File size: 37 Mb
- Dimension: 135x 216x 18mm::380g Download: A Curious Life for a Lady : The Story of Isabella Bird
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A biography of note is Pat Barr's A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird, a Remarkable Victorian Traveler (1970). There are chapters on Bird in Mignon Rittenhouse, Seven Women Explorers (1964); Dea Birkett, Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers (1989); and Marion Tinling, Women into the Unknown (1989). Get this from a library! A curious life for a lady:the story of Isabella Bird. [Pat Barr] A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird [Pat Barr] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. In 1872, at the age of forty, this rather earnest daughter of a country parson abandoned the rectory nest and began her pioneering journeys to some of the most inhospitable corners of the world. Lady Baker and Lady Burton were as brave and as resourceful as any of the four Later on in our story Barton will interest us as the house from which Isabella I think [wrote Mrs. Bishop after their return to Edin- burgh], in his secret heart, Churchill herself cites Pat Barr s A Curious Life for a Lady, a biography of Isabella Bird, as instrumental in the writing of Top Girls, and Bird s own works, including The Englishwoman in America, A Lady s Life in the Rocky Mountains, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Travels of a Lady in the Interior of Japan, tell of Bird 2019-07-24://:// A curious life for a lady:the story of Isabella Bird. [Pat Barr] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Add tags for "A curious life for a lady:the story of Isabella Bird". Be the first. Similar Items. Related Subjects: (4) Bird, Isabella L. - (Isabella Lucy), - 1831-1904. A Curious Life For A Lady The Story. Of Isabella Bird chapter 8 section 1 answers,chapter 7 test a,chapter. 7 managerial accounting solutions,chapter 9 skills. A Curious Life for a Lady book. Read 4 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. In 1872, at Meeting with Isabella Bird. The English explorer Isabella Bird was exploring Colorado in 1873; her uncle George Kingsley recommended Estes Park. Much of what is known about Nugent comes from her writings, in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Isabella Bird was a woman of remarkable gifts. In 1872, at the age of forty, this rather earnest daughter of a country parson abandoned the rectory nest and BIRD, ISABELLA L., also known under her married surname of Bishop (1831-1904), British traveler in western Iran and Kurdistan during the late Victorian period.Coming from a line of Warwickshire gentry with strong links with the East India Company and the Anglican Church, Isabella inherited a firm Evangelical Christian faith plus a strong humanitarian strain, doubtless strengthened her Get this from a library! A curious life for a lady:the story of Isabella Bird, a remarkable Victorian traveller. [Pat Barr] Nineteenth-century male European travel writers sometimes romanticize their destinations and dream they have arrived in untouched lands. The Hawaii Isabella Bird visited, however, was not an idyllic land, forgotten time. Early in the nineteenth century, steamships crossed the Pacific, carrying goods and people from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. Pat Barr (1934 2018) was a novelist, writer of social history and journalist. She was born in Norwich, attended Norwich High School for Girls and studied English at the University of Birmingham. She worked as a teacher at Yokohama International School in Japan. She also studied for a master's degree from University College London. Career. Barr's history books included: Get this from a library! A curious life for a lady: the story of Isabella Bird. [Pat Barr] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Add tags for "A curious life for a lady: the story of Isabella Bird.". Be the first. Similar Items. Related Subjects: (6) The author gets most of her material directly from Isabella's many books of her travels plus an earlier biographer. Lacking in depth, "Curious Life" makes up for it with easy to read, well-organized writing, letting Isabella Bird tell much of the story with quotes from her books and letters. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First American edition, first printing, very good copy in lightly worn dustjacket. Biography of a remarkable. A curious life for a lady: The story of Isabella Bird, a remarkable victorian traveller Barr, Pat A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. A curious life for a lady: the story of Isabella Bird, a remarkable Victorian traveller. Couverture. Pat Barr. Secker & Warburg, 1970 - 347 pages. 0 Avis Home 1970 A Curious Life for a Lady the story of Isabella Bird Barr s. Post navigation 1927 Nepal and the Nepalese Gimlette s. 1895 Great Closed Land Marston s 1970 A Curious Life for a Lady the story of Isabella Bird Barr s. Posted on December 23, 2015 MCADD Editor. 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