Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Isabella Bird by Yousra el hamadi

Isabella Bird



 Isabella Lucy Bird was born in 1831 in yorkshire. She suffered many physical and mental diseases and her best cure was travelling. The first travel she made was to Scotland with her family. The moment she arrived there , she instantly started to feel better . But after some time she started to feel sick again, so she left to Canada and from there to New York. From New York she went to many other states in America , but in 1858 she went back home because of her father's death . Many years later and after her mother's death she started travelling again , and she went to Hawaii and to the USA . In 1878 she packed her things and started a new journey to Japan and many other Asian cities like China and Malaysia. After that she went to Egypt and from there to England , because her sister got disappeared . In 1881 she got married to a doctor who died 5 years later . After the death of her husband , she went to India , Persia and Kurdistan . Isabella kept travelling , and her new destinations were Japan , manchury and Korea , places were she stayed for 3 years . In 1900 she went to Tangier and visited many Moroccan cities and became the first European woman to meet the Moroccan emperor. She died in 1904.


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