by Isabella L. Bird · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780860687900
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«The Yangtze Valley and Beyond» is Isabella L. Bird's travel account of China, published by Virago in 1985 in paperback (547 pages, in English).
After years of travel through America and Asia, Isabella Bird traverses the Yangtze and northwestern China in 1896, especially the province of Sze Chuan, almost to the Tibetan border. She travels by river boat and sedan chair, stays at inns and missions, and describes landscapes, customs, and dangers such as official hostility and snowfalls.
Facsimile edition of the work published by Murray in London in 1899, with a new introduction by Pat Barr and an index. Part of the Virago Travellers series.
For readers of classic travel writing, Chinese history, and nineteenth-century women travelers' chronicles.
Isabella Lucy Bishop was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. She was also the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
