Isabella Lucy Bird (October 15, 1831 - October 7, 1904) - British researcher of the XIX century, writer and naturalist.
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Biography
Born in Borobridge, Yorkshire , on October 15, 1831 in a priest's family, raised in Tattenhall, Cheshire . In childhood, she was ill a lot, but from an early age she was distinguished by a desire for wanderings. She started traveling when she was twenty-two years old, first going to America with relatives to improve her health. She described her journey there in an anonymous book, The Englishwoman in America ("Englishwoman in America"), published in 1856. A year later, she went to Canada, then to Scotland.
In 1868, she moved to her sister's island, Mull , but again began to experience health problems, left Britain in 1872.
Her first trip after 1872 was a trip to Australia , the second - to the Hawaiian Islands (about which her second book was written). Then she again went to the USA, traveled to Colorado and the Rocky Mountains , and after that - to Asian countries: China, Japan and Southeast Asia (visited modern Vietnam , Malaysia , Singapore ).
In 1880, when her sister died of typhoid , she married a doctor, John Bishop, and returned to Britain, but in 1886, when her husband died and her health deteriorated again, she went on a journey again — this time as a missionary to India . After staying there for three years, in 1889 she went to Tibet , and from there - to Persia, Kurdistan and the Ottoman Empire . Her last big trip was a trip in 1897 to China and Korea, where she traveled along the banks of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River , but her last trip was to Morocco in 1901, where she traveled a thousand miles with the Berbers in the desert and mountains of the Atlas and ended up at the reception at the sultan. She died in Edinburgh in 1904, planning a new trip to China.
She wrote books about almost every one of her travels. Her most famous works: Unbeaten tracks in Japan (1880, 2 volumes), Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891, 3 volumes), Among the Tibetans (1894), Korea and her Neighbors (1898, 2 volumes), The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899), Chinese Pictures (1900). In 1892, she became the first female member of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain.
Bibliography
- Anna M. Stoddart, The Life of Isabella Bird (1906).
- Luke Gartlan: A complete Craze: Isabella Bird Bishop in East Asia, in PhotoResearcher [Vienna: ESHPh], no. 15, April 2011 (p. 13-26), ISSN 0958-2606
- Carole Glauber, Isabella Bird Bishop: Korea, the Yangtze Valley, and Beyond, Photo Review, Summer 2002.
- This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Isabella Bird - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Luminous-Lint - 2005.
- ↑ Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000