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100 1 _aBird, Isabella L.
_q(Isabella Lucy),
_d1831-1904.
245 1 0 _aAmong the Tibetans /
_cIsabella L. Bird.
264 _aMilton Keynes UK :
_bLightening Source UK.
300 _a67 pages :
_bill.
_c22 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
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500 _aOriginally published: New York : Religious Tract Society, 1894.
520 _aIsabella Bird writes of her adventures in a manner that captivates her readers Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) was a 19th century British traveler and writer. Since her father was a Church of England priest the family moved many times during her childhood. Bird traveled to Colorado when she heard the air was very healthy. She covered the 800 miles on horseback riding like a man and not sidesaddle. Among The Tibetans begins "The Vale of Kashmir is too well known to require description. It is the 'happy hunting-ground' of the Anglo-Indian sportsman and tourist, the resort of artists and invalids, the home of pashm shawls and exquisitely embroidered fabrics, and the land of Lalla Rookh. Its inhabitants, chiefly Moslems, infamously governed by Hindus, are a feeble race, attracting little interest, valuable to travellers as 'coolies' or porters, and repulsive to them from the mingled cunning and obsequiousness which have been fostered by ages of oppression. But even for them there is the dawn of hope, for the Church Missionary Society has a strong medical and educational mission at the capital, a hospital and dispensary under the charge of a lady M.D. have been opened for women, and a capable and upright 'settlement officer, ' lent by the Indian Government, is investigating the iniquitous land arrangements with a view to a just settlement. - From publisher.
600 1 0 _aBird, Isabella L.
_q(Isabella Lucy),
_d1831-1904
_xTravel
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region.
651 0 _aTibet Autonomous Region (China)
_xDescription and travel.
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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