Letters to Henrietta

By Isabella Lucy Bird

Book Overview

Before her first journey, no one would have guessed that Isabella Bird would become the heroine of Victorian travel. A middle-aged spinster on the Isle of Mull, she suffered from all kinds of strange diseases and was too frail to hold up her head without a steel support. Nonplussed, her doctors packed her off to the Pacific, the antipodean version of the spas of Switzerland, hoping for a cure.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719560470
• ISBN13: 9780719560477
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.