article_snippet: Some of Isabella Bird's incredible journeys, published in Isabella Bird's 1899 work in The Yangtze and Beyond, are now the subject of a new book by Deborah Ireland.
article_snippet: Deborah Ireland new book about Isabella Bird's celebrates Deborah Ireland writing and reprints many of Deborah Ireland vivid photographs .
article_snippet: In Deborah Ireland's new book about Bird, Deborah Ireland charts Bird's three years spent travelling in China and reprints Isabella Bird's stunning photographs of Chinese daily life gradually being infiltrated by European clothing and customs.
article_snippet: Despite saying Isabella Bird's was too old for arduous journeys, Isabella Bird's travelled 8,000 miles during an extended trip to China, travelling on horseback and in carts, by boat and in a sedan chair, using Isabella Bird's newly acquired camera and photographic skills to document Isabella Bird's journey.
article_snippet: Isabella Bird's traversed China, from Hangchow (Hangzhou) to Hong Kong and from one end of the River Yangtze to the other as well as venturing into Korea and Japan.
article_snippet: In 1894 Isabella Bird's set off from Liverpool to the Far East unaware Isabella Bird's was travelling into the First Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan over control of Korea.
article_snippet: Isabella Bird's was deported from Korea on a Japanese steamer with no money and luggage and only the clothes on Isabella Bird's back and was forced to take refuge in China.
article_snippet: There Isabella Bird's experienced a flood on the Manchurian Plain and risked Isabella Bird's life helping drowning villagers in terrific storms before succumbing to malaria.
article_snippet: Confined to the town of Mukden (Shenyang) by Isabella Bird's injuries, Isabella Bird's spent time getting to know the missionary doctors and photographing the missionary doctors patients, many of whom suffered from leprosy or the effects of opium addiction.
article_snippet: Bird's account of Isabella Bird's travels was hailed by one reviewer at the time as 'one of the most thoroughly documented accounts of late nineteenth century China ever written' As well as the scorn of Isabella Bird's countrymen, Bird also had to contend with the hostility of the locals who were not used to seeing a foreigner, let alone a foreign woman, travelling .
article_snippet: Isabella Bird's photographs of this time show pagodas and palaces as well as the mean back streets and the ravaged faces of disese sufferers.
article_snippet: While travelling in the Chinese interior Isabella Bird's managed to avoid the plagues of rats and other vermin by suspending Isabella Bird's clothes and boots on the tripod of Isabella Bird's camera.
article_snippet: In Isabella Bird's book, Ireland charts Bird's three years spent travelling in China and reprints Isabella Bird's stunning photographs of Chinese daily life gradually being infiltrated by European clothing and customs .
article_snippet: However Bird's account of Isabella Bird's travels was hailed by one reviewer at the time as 'one of the most thoroughly documented accounts of late nineteenth century China ever written.'
article_snippet: A Photographic Journal of Travels through China 1894-1896 by Deborah Ireland will be published by Ammonite Press later this month.