A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Bird, Isabella

Victorian Letters of Colorado Frontier Adventure, Wilderness, and Women's Travel

10,50 €

ISBN: 9788027379729

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 175 g

Produktinformationen "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains"

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains gathers Isabella Bird's vivid letters from her 1873 journey through Colorado, transforming private correspondence into a classic of Victorian travel writing. With an alert eye for landscape, weather, labor, and manners, Bird renders the Rockies as both sublime wilderness and contested frontier. Her prose is energetic, observational, and often wry, combining natural description, ethnographic curiosity, and the adventurous rhythms of a quest narrative, especially in her accounts of Estes Park and Longs Peak. Bird was a British traveler whose chronic ill health paradoxically propelled her toward strenuous journeys in search of climate, freedom, and self-command. Unmarried, intellectually independent, and later the first woman elected to the Royal Geographical Society, she brought to her travels both Victorian assumptions and a striking willingness to test the limits imposed on women. Her encounter with the American West gave her a stage on which mobility became a form of authorship. This book is highly recommended for readers interested in travel literature, women's writing, frontier history, and environmental imagination. It offers not merely adventure, but a disciplined, revealing record of how a perceptive nineteenth-century woman read landscape, society, and herself.

Eigenschaften "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Reisen und Urlaub
Verlag:	e-artnow

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