Unbeaten tracks in Japan: an account of travels on horseback in the interior: including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrines of Nikk

by Isabella Lucy Bird

Book Overview

Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 - 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. Early life: Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154427145X
• ISBN13: 9781544271453
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"