Isabella Bird
Isabella Lucy Bishop (* October 15, 1831 in Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire; † October 7, 1904 in Edinburgh) was an English travel writer.
Isabella Bird came in 1831 as the eldest daughter of Pastor Edward Bird and his second wife Dora, a daughter of the pastor Marmaduke Lawson, was born. Her sister Henrietta was born five years later.
From childhood, Isabella Bird had always struggled with health problems. Due to a spinal disorder doctors prescribed her a lot of exercise in the fresh air and so learned Bird at a young age to ride. 1854 sent her father on a voyage to North America to visit relatives there. As an author, her travelogue appeared anonymously in 1856 under the title The Englishwoman in America. The following year, she took a trip to Canada and explored then Scotland. Your next big trip took place, however, only when her father and mother were dead.
1872 she broke to Australia, then moved on to Hawaii, went to Colorado and finally rode in 1873 on horseback through the Rocky Mountains. There Isabella Bird also made the acquaintance of the adventurer Jim Nugent. The letters in which she reported the sister of their travel experiences, were well -known work, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains published in Birds. Also their future endeavors should accompany travelogues. Although Bird did not seem to get the very local climate and on their return to the British Isles old disease symptoms always recurred, it appeared to the strains on their travels as well as lack of comfort make out little.
After her return from America Bird lived with her sister on the Scottish Isle of Mull. The physician John Bishop of Edinburgh asked her to marry him, but the bird refused. Instead, she moved to the Far East, where she traveled to Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. After 1880 her sister had died of typhoid fever, she finally gave Bishops Advertise by and married him in February 1881. John Bishop died in 1886. Their journey has taken her in 1889 at the age of nearly sixty years to the Indian subcontinent, she crossed Tibet and traveled to Persia, Kurdistan and Turkey. 1892 Isabella Bird was recorded as the first woman in the Royal Geographical Society. Your last major undertaking led in 1897 to Korea and China, where they are along the Yangtze River and the Han Jiang, a tributary of the Yangtze River, traveling.
Their last destination was Morocco, a recent trip to China planned. A few months after her return, Isabella Bird died at the age of almost 73 years on October 7, 1904 in her home in Edinburgh. Your final resting place she found on the Dean Cemetery of Edinburgh.