This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

First published in 1899, this book is the account of a woman's journey through central China in 1896-1897. Many of the areas she explored and described were alm

Celebrating the achievements of Isabella Bird, this is a lavish pictorial record of her last great journey through China, in the closing years of the 19th centu