Isabella Bird: A Photographic Memoir of Travels in China 1894-1896 by D. Ireland

Isabella Bird was also a keen photographer, and her later books were beautifully illustrated with her own photographs. Bird was in her mid-sixties when she undertook her travels, to a land that was largely unknown and largely misunderstood in the West, where a woman travelling alone was greeted with incredulity and, occasionally, hostility.

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