This book contains letters to her sister detailing her experiences during this travel. -- from back cover

This dashing picture book biography takes us around the world with a daring Victorian female explorer and author.

ABOUT THE BOOK I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

Her accounts of her experiences became best-selling books and established for Isabella Bird a reputation as one of the great travel writers of her day. 'Miss Barr has her measure. She and Miss Bird are well suited.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Isabella Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains is a classic of American literature and travel writing reimagined for modern readers.

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 century.