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Among the Tibetans, by Isabella L. Bishop

"There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with "the pleasantest of people." She offers evocative and colourful descriptions of Tibetan rituals and culture, along with vivid descriptions of its villages, monasteries, temples and palaces ...

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  • ""There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with "the pleasantest of people." She offers evocative and colourful descriptions of Tibetan rituals and culture, along with vivid descriptions of its villages, monasteries, temples and palaces ..."@en
  • "Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published Among the Tibetans in 1894 and recounts her adventures of five years earlier. Bird was recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for her physical and nervous difficulties. She had previously toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Sandwich Islands, and the Far East before her marriage to Dr John Bishop. After his death in 1886, Isabella resolved to travel again, although now for missionary purposes. She studied practical medicine at St Mary's Hospital in London and was baptised in a ceremony of total immersion. She travelled to India and Tibet in 1889, both visiting medical missions and embarking on the journey into Ladakh on horseback and by houseboat, camping and living among the natives. The book recounts her observations of day-to-day life in the area, as well as its politics and environment."@en
  • "A fascinating look at the people of Tibet by 19th Century travel writer Isabella Bird."@en
  • "Isabella Lucy Bird (October 15, 1831? October 7, 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveller, writer, and a natural historian. "There never was anybody," wrote the Spectator, "who had adventures as well as Miss Bird." In 1982, Caryl Churchill used her as a character in her play Top Girls. Much of the dialogue written by Churchill comes from Bird's own writings. In Among the Tibetans Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with "the pleasantest of people." She offers evocative and colourful descriptions o."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Travel literature"@en
  • "Travel literature"
  • "Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)"@en
  • "Biography"
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  • "Among the Tibetans, by Isabella L. Bishop"@en
  • "Chez les Tibétains"
  • "Among the Tibetans ... With illustrations"@en
  • "Among the Tibetans ... : With illustrations"@en
  • "Among the Tibetans ... With illustrations"
  • "Among the Tibetans : with ill"
  • "Among the tibetans"@en
  • "Among the Tibetans"@en
  • "Among the Tibetans"
  • "Among the Tibetans : with many illustrations"
  • "Chez les Tibétains : [une voyageuse anglaise au Petit Tibet (1889)]"
  • "[Among the Tibetans ... With illustrations.]"@en

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