Isabella Bird - The Golden Chersonese And The Way Thither. [reprinted After The Original 1883 Edition]. With An Introduction By Robin Hanbury-tenison.

London, Century Publishing, 1983. Small stout 8°, original coloured illustrated limp glossy wrappers. (xiv), 384pp. Frontispiece, 9 other black/white plates, illustrations in text, 2 full-page sketch-maps, all reproduced (facsims.) after the original steelengravings, appendix, index, list of illustrations, table of contents. The Golden Chersonese is the name given to what we now know as the Malay Peninsula, the setting for this classic of travel, written by an extraordinarily courageous woman who travelled to the far corners of the globe and who became, amongst other things, the first woman member of the Royal Geographical Society. This book in 23 Letters to her sister supplies a clear and interesting multi-disciplinary picture of late nineteenth century Malay Peninsula. A nice reprint with clear reproductions. Paperback edition (as orig. publ.). Good copy. (some minimal shaving to covers and tail of spine).