Penguin Great Journeys
by Isabella Lucy Bird
A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life.
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Description
Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science.
Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities.
Additional information
| Book Condition | Used – Good |
|---|---|
| Cover | Paperback |
| Size | Pocketbook, 128 pages, 114x183x9mm |
| Published | February 1st 2007 by Penguin Group (first published 1879) |
| Book Series | Penguin Great Journeys |
| Genre | Nonfiction, Classics, History, Travel |
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