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The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands - Hardcover
Isabella Bird visited the Sandwich Islands in 1871, when she was forty. Her letters home to her sister Henrietta have a remarkable freshness and spontaneity, and reveal the transformation of a Victorian invalid into a fearless horsewoman and enthusiastic mountain-climber, who thought nothing of riding for miles soaked with rain and fording terrifyingly swollen rivers.
She undertook a thirteen-hour unaccompanied trek to the summit of the extinct volcano of Mauna Kea, revelling in the security with which she was able to travel and camp out without guides or companions. At the end of her stay she was able to make the perilous ascent to the summit of Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world, camping for the night on the edge of the crater, at nearly 14,000 feet.
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‘The boldest, most perceptive and most romantic of the great generation of Victorian travellers’ The Times
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Isabella L Bird was born in Yorkshire in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire. Her writing was featured in a number journals and magazines and in 1892, she became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. She died in Edinburgh in 1904, just shy of her seventy-third birthday.
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- Publication date1997
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- ISBN 13 9780330350433
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