Folio Archives 330: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird 1988
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A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird 1988
In 1873, aged 42, Isabella Bird, a Scotswoman who was short in stature but huge in heart, set off on another of her solo journeys. She travelled around the world from Scotland via New Zealand and Hawaii to San Francisco where she boarded a train that took her through the Rocky Mountains to southern Wyoming and then northern Colorado. There she bought a horse and spent several months exploring the Rocky Mountains.
Suffering from hunger, hypothermia, altitude sickness and snow blindness, she slowly made her way through the high country, detailing everything in fascinating letters back to her best friend in Scotland. This book is a collection of these wonderful letters.
She describes the hard life of the settlers, interacts with outlaws and desperados, makes friends with lonely women, leads the second ever party to climb Long’s Peak, explores the beautiful Estes Park, rides a horse expertly to round up lost cattle and crosses the continental divide in deep snow. She admired a cowboy with “golden curls hanging half-way down his back”.
She was an extraordinarily intrepid and independent woman and the book is essential reading for anyone living in Colorado or the other mountain states of the USA.
The xxv +176 page book is bound in light green cloth that is printed in grey with a wrap-around picture of the Rocky Mountains. The spine title runs bottom to top. There is a 14 page introduction by Dervia Murphy, a map of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in 1873 and 11 bound-in monochrome plates of contemporary etchings, photographs and wood-engravings. The page tops stained green and it has plain green endpapers. The off-white slipcase measures 25.8x16.5cm.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
In 1873, aged 42, Isabella Bird, a Scotswoman who was short in stature but huge in heart, set off on another of her solo journeys. She travelled around the world from Scotland via New Zealand and Hawaii to San Francisco where she boarded a train that took her through the Rocky Mountains to southern Wyoming and then northern Colorado. There she bought a horse and spent several months exploring the Rocky Mountains.
Suffering from hunger, hypothermia, altitude sickness and snow blindness, she slowly made her way through the high country, detailing everything in fascinating letters back to her best friend in Scotland. This book is a collection of these wonderful letters.
She describes the hard life of the settlers, interacts with outlaws and desperados, makes friends with lonely women, leads the second ever party to climb Long’s Peak, explores the beautiful Estes Park, rides a horse expertly to round up lost cattle and crosses the continental divide in deep snow. She admired a cowboy with “golden curls hanging half-way down his back”.
She was an extraordinarily intrepid and independent woman and the book is essential reading for anyone living in Colorado or the other mountain states of the USA.
The xxv +176 page book is bound in light green cloth that is printed in grey with a wrap-around picture of the Rocky Mountains. The spine title runs bottom to top. There is a 14 page introduction by Dervia Murphy, a map of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in 1873 and 11 bound-in monochrome plates of contemporary etchings, photographs and wood-engravings. The page tops stained green and it has plain green endpapers. The off-white slipcase measures 25.8x16.5cm.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
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There is a 14 page introduction by Deryla Murphy
Dervla not Deryla.
Dervla not Deryla.
3wcarter
>2 Ipcress_File:
Thanks for correcting my typo. Corrected in the original.
Thanks for correcting my typo. Corrected in the original.
4Ipcress_File
Dervla Murphy was an intrepid Irish woman who journeyed over significant parts of the globe by bicycle during the second half of the twentieth century. She died last year.
If the Folio Society wanted to add another travel writer to their portfolio she would be a very good choice.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/may/26/dervla-murphy-obituary
If the Folio Society wanted to add another travel writer to their portfolio she would be a very good choice.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/may/26/dervla-murphy-obituary
