This is the travel biography of Isabella Bird, the author of The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither, who spent much of her first forty years of her life as a pious Victorian parson's daughter studying hymns. It was therefore surprising that she then burst out of such homely confinements to become a tireless international traveller, usually alone. Most of her travels were to parts of Asia where European influence was not well established. In the late 1870s she visited Malaya shortly after the Pangkor Agreement. Good Paperback. Reprint. Originally published in 1970. 347 pages with a list of sources and an index.
Weight 0.4kg. Post free within Malaysia
Published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, UK, 1985
Condition: The spine has light creases and the cover edges have some rubbing. The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is medium tanning throughout.
