Timeline
Lifetime:
1831 -
1904
Passed: ≈
120 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Isabella L. Bird
Books by Isabella L. Bird
Among the Tibetans
History
Non-Fiction
Travel
History
Religion
Exploration
Culture
Travel
Customs
Buddhism
Ethnography
Landscape
Manners
Flora
Tibet
Isabella Bird's 'Among the Tibetans' offers a vivid account of her journey through Tibet in the late 19th century, a time when such ventures were exceptionally daring. Bird's keen observation and detailed descriptions transport readers to a bygone wo...
Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
History
Memoir
Non-Fiction
Travel
19th century
History
Nature
Adventure
Exploration
Culture
Travel
Society
Geography
Ethnography
Southeast Asia
Malay Peninsula
Isabella L. Bird's "The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither" recounts her adventurous journey through the Malay Peninsula in the late 19th century. Bird, a renowned travel writer, offers a captivating blend of personal observations, cultural insigh...