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Golden Chersonese
Isabella Bird
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Description for Golden Chersonese
paperback. First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 422 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 3JH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 780.
Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore where the British Colonial Secretary offered her the opportunity to vist the native states of the Western Archipelago. Because she had such a good introduction, she went and was taken everywhere by local officials. And so Miss Bird's journey was less rugged than her many other trips, but, rather more comfortable and well connected, she ... Read more
Even in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Isabelle Bird, by then an established travel writer, was able to refer to the Malay Peninsula as an almost unknown land. Travelling back from Japan, the intrepid travel writer stopped off in Singapore where the British Colonial Secretary offered her the opportunity to vist the native states of the Western Archipelago. Because she had such a good introduction, she went and was taken everywhere by local officials. And so Miss Bird's journey was less rugged than her many other trips, but, rather more comfortable and well connected, she ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
422
Condition
New
Number of Pages
422
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138991965
SKU
V9781138991965
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Ref
99-1
About Isabella Bird
Isabella Lucy Bird was perhaps the most prolific and popular female traveller and writer of the 19th century.
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