The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chaun, and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory [2 volumes]

Bishop, Isabella Bird

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899

First American edition. A handsome, two volume set. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. xii, [2], 410 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 365, [1], [2] pages : illustrations, folded color map, portrait ; 23 cm.  Hardcover.  Private library stamps and markings. Cordier, Sinica, 355; Yakushi (1984) B170. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), was a truly exceptional women and first class explorer.  she the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892).  Bird traveled up the Yangtze and Han rivers in China and Korea in 1897. Bird was 64 when she took this journey through a dangerous and chaotic part of China and Korea.  This trip took her 13,000 km, up the Yangtze River by boat and then overland through Sichuan to Tibet. Quite exceptional for a Victorian English woman. 

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