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A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains:
Isabella Lucy Bird

A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains:

Barnes & Noble (Jan 2005)
9780760763131
| Paperback
206 pages | English
Dewey 978/.02092
LC Classification F782.R6 .B55 2005
LC Control No. 2006273520

Genre

  • Amer Hist Old West

Subject

  • Estes Park (Colo.) - Biography
  • Frontier And Pioneer Life - Rocky Mountains
  • Rocky Mountains - Description And Travel
  • West (U.S.) - Description And Travel
  • Women - Biography. - Rocky Mountains
  • Women Travelers - Biography. - Rocky Mountains

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Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 Ð 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866). Boroughbridge was her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora.Bird moved several times during her childhood. In 1832, Reverend Bird was appointed curate in Maidenhead, where Isabella's brother Edward was born and died in his first year. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird

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