UNCOMFORTABLE TRAVEL AND BAD ADVICE
Being an early female explorer
By Jacki Hill-Murphy
While I was writing The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird the question on my mind was: could we possibly have similar adventures to Isabella today? While travelling to hitherto unknown countries Isabella’s methods to reach the heart of a place, its people, their culture and the wildest features of its landscape would be totally off limits to us today; in a century and a half we have cleaned up and commingled our world and turned slow travel into fast.
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