| A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Contributor(s): Bird, Isabella (Author) |
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ISBN: 167072087X ISBN-13: 9781670720870 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.33 lbs) 130 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Lake Tahoe-Morning in San Francisco-Dust-A Pacific mail-train- Digger Indians-Cape Horn-A mountain hotel -A pioneer-A Truckee livery stable-A mountain stream -Finding a bear-Tahoe. LAKE TAHOE, September 2. I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way A strictly North American beauty-snowsplotched mountains, huge pines, red-woods, sugar pines, silver spruce; a crystalline atmosphere, waves of the richest color; and a pine-hung lake which mirrors all beauty on its surface. Lake Tahoe is before me, a sheet of water twenty-two miles long by ten broad, and in some places 1,700 feet deep. It lies at a height of 6,000 feet, and the snow-crowned summits which wall it in are from 8,000 to 11,000 feet in altitude. The air is keen and elastic. There is no sound but the distant and slightly musical ring of the lumberer's axe...Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. |