I just finished "An English Wild West" ... oh it's really too much as the kids say ... this woman is just incredible ... On the web you will find little about her in French and one of his books are translated. But you can read this page: Isabella .
English On my blog you will find links to many sites: click here ... Promised best passages of the translation is in progress ...
This little woman was neurotic, sick, weak, short, everything went wrong ... Until the day a doctor more than the other psychologist said: "Miss, you should travel ideas that you would change ..."
This does remind you of anything? though of course, Alexandra David-Neel But ... Alexandra (born only in 1868) was not the only nor the first to accomplish extraordinary trips ... Did you read the book Christel Snitch "Adventurers in crinoline" published in 1987 Current Points?
You'll find very interesting pages on Isabella Bird among others ... In 1872 Isabella sailed for Australia ... Ella is 40 years ... To her, life begins ...
The story that interests us today starts in 1873 ... is the era of pioneers, wild west ... large regions of Colorado are still virgins and our ... English is small and fragile to travel by train or horse or wagon ... eat ... sleep when she can often help land ... go wild herds to earn ... climbing mountains in his dress "Hawaiian" floor of old boots on loan .. . so happy when she finds the rubber shoes ... it's beautiful life in the open air, when it freezes even in the houses, the snow covers everything ... the blizzard blows ...
" October 9, 1973
Evans offers me six dollars a week if I consent to stay during the winter and to cook in the absence of Mrs. Edwards! I think I want to play the role of a servant if there was not to make bread. But it would suit me better run after the cattle on horseback. Men do not make themselves household things and yesterday they washed and ironed their laundry, and the latter operation was far from being done properly. I really believe (though for the fifteenth time) that I leave tomorrow. "
That night it was -17 ° in his cabin after
... If you want to read this book in English, please you at this address:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
usual, I'm not pro-books on the net, but it allows us to discover some VO texts unavailable in France.
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