Isabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad'. In

Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.

Celebrating the achievements of Isabella Bird, this is a lavish pictorial record of her last great journey through China, in the closing years of the 19th centu

The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.