Learn more about Isabella Bird and other daring women of the time in the books listed here!

Barr, Pat. A Curious Life for a Lady. London: MacMillan/John Murray, 1970. 347 pp.

Haveley, Cicely P. This Grand Beyond: The Travels of Isabella Lucy Bird. London: Century, 1984.

Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler: Isabella Bird. Boulder, CO: Blue Penguin, 1994. 224 pp.

Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. New York: Dutton, 1965. 182 pp.

Murray, Earl. In the Arms of the Sky. Forge Books, 1998. 304 pp.

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