Golden Chersonesse (Travelers) [Hardcover]

Bird (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0710309333 | ISBN-13: 978-0710309334 | Publication Date: June 30, 2004

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabella Bird, by then an established travel writer, was still able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore, where the British Colonial Secretary had the idea that she might like to visit the native states of the Western Archepelago. Because she had such a good introduction, she went and was taken everywhere by local officials. And so Miss Bird's journey was less rugged than her many other trips but rather more comfortable and well connected, and Miss Bird enjoyed it immensely.

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Isabella Bird was perhaps the most prolific and popular female traveller and writer of the nineteenth century.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (June 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0710309333
• ISBN-13: 978-0710309334
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,205,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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