Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.

Celebrating the achievements of Isabella Bird, this is a lavish pictorial record of her last great journey through China, in the closing years of the 19th centu

Isabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad'. In

The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.