The Yangtze Valley and Beyond

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1899 edition by John Murray London.This book includes maps available as a free download.This is an Illustrated edition.Isabella Lucy (Bird) Bishop (1831 - 1904) (pen-name of Isabella Bird) was one of the greatest travelers and travel writers of all time and this is her last major book a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. In describing the journey Isabella provides a rich mix of observations and describes two occasions when she is almost killed by anti-foreign mobs. It many ways Isabella created the model for travel writing today and this one of her greatest works.