by Isabella L. Bird · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780860682783
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«Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan» is Isabella L. Bird's travel account, published by Virago in paperback (381 pages, in English).
Isabella Bird recounts her travels through Persia and Kurdistan in the late nineteenth century, with observations on the region's landscapes, cities, people and customs. The edition includes an introduction by Pat Barr placing the text in the tradition of travel writing by men and women of the period.
Volume I of the Virago Travellers series, with an introduction by Pat Barr. Work originally published in 1891 by John Murray.
For readers interested in the history of the Middle East and in classic travel accounts written by women of the nineteenth century.
Isabella Lucy Bishop was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. She was also the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
