by Graham Earnshaw, Isabella L. Bird · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789810844844
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«The Golden Chersonese» is Isabella L. Bird's travel account of Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, paperback (Monsoon Books, 352 pages).
In this classic of travel literature, Isabella Bird narrates in twenty-three letters to her sister her travels through Singapore and the Malay Peninsula in the late nineteenth century. With a Victorian eye, she portrays colonial life, landscapes, culture and fauna of the region, and offers a historical record of the Malaysia and Singapore of the past.
The work was originally published under the title «The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither». This Monsoon Books edition dates from 2011.
Suitable for those who enjoy Victorian travel accounts and the colonial history of South-East Asia.
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.
