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Isabella Bishop was born at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, United Kingdom on the 15th of October 1832, daughter of the Rev. Edward Bird, rector of Tattenhall, Cheshire.
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Isabella Lucy Bird (15 October 1831 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, novelist, and a natural historian. The Essential Isabella L. Bird Collection, contains 9 books, includes: Among the Tibetans The Englishwoman in America The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither The Hawaiian Archipelago Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Notes on Old Edinburgh Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Isabella Lucy Bird (18311904) was a nineteenth-century English traveller, writer, and a natural historian. Bird was born in Boroughbridge in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. Time spent in Britain always seemed to make her ill and, following her mother's death in 1868, she embarked on a series of excursions to avoid settling permanently with her sister Henrietta (Henny) on the Isle of Mull. Bird could not endure her sister's domestic lifestyle, preferring instead to support further travels through writing. Many of her works are compiled from letters she wrote home to her sister in Scotland. Bird finally left Britain in 1872, going first to Australia, which she disliked, and then to Hawaii (known in Europe as the Sandwich Islands), her love for which prompted her second book (published three years later). While there she climbed Mauna Loa and visited Queen Emma. She then moved on to Colorado, then the newest member of the United States, where she had heard the air was excellent for the infirm. Dressed practically and riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she covered over 800 miles in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. Her letters to her sister, first printed in the magazine Leisure Hour, comprised her fourth and perhaps most famous book, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Featured in journals and magazines for decades, Bird was by now something of a household name. In 1892, she became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society.
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Isabella Bishop was born at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, United Kingdom on the 15th of October 1832, daughter of the Rev. Edward Bird, rector of Tattenhall, Cheshire.
Isabella Bird began to travel when she was twenty-two. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America (1856), consisted of her correspondence during a visit to Canada undertaken for her health. She visited the Rocky Mountains, the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, producing some brightly written books of travel. But her reputation was made by the records of her extensive travels in Asia: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (2 vols. , 1880), Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (2 vols. , 1891), Among the Tibetans (1894), Korea and her Neighbours (2 vols. , 1898), The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899), Chinese Pictures (1900). In 1901 she rode a thousand miles in Morocco and the Atlas Mountains. She died in Edinburgh on the 7th of October 1904.
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Bishop was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She was elected to membership of the Royal Photographic Society on 12 January 1897.
In 1881, Isabella married Dr. John Bishop, an Edinburgh physician, and was left a widow in 1886.
