Golden Chersonese Av Isabella Bird

First published in 2003. Isabella Bird''s account of her journeys in Korea in 1898 represents one of the very rare accounts of that country in the latter part of the nineteenth century. At that time Korea was virtually a forbidden land and had...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travellers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. lt many ways, Isabella created the model for travel...