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Size: 12mo-over 6; First Comstock Printing, 1987. Paperback in FINE

Size: 12mo-over 6; First Comstock Printing, 1987. Paperback in FINE Condition. 235 pages. Introduction by Ann Ronald. First published by John Murray in 1879. Very clean and unmarked illustrated card cover. No edgewear, no damage to or creasing of spine. Tight glued binding. Pages faintly toned, clean, no markings. An account of the astounding journey of Miss Bird, the daughter of a clergyman, born in 1831, who set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 in "search of health". In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode on her horse, Birdie, through the American West, through the Rocky Mountains. A collection of amazing letters that tell of unspoilt landscape and abundant wildlife, encounters, with snakes, bears, wolves, puma, and her reactions to the volatile passions of the miners and pioneers settlers she met. Comstock Edition, Sausilito, CA 1987.