Author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 (Keywords)

This selection of letters reveals not the Isabella Bird we thought we knew but instead a temptestuous, self-obsessed woman, occassionally at odds with the idea of Empire, deflecting proposals right and left.

This is true-life account of how a quiet English lady turned into the darling and dashing world world traveller Isabella Bird, whose exploits held the world enthralled. In 1873, Isabella spent six months journeying through the islands of Hawaii.