Born in 1831 Isabella Bird travelled to the four corners of the earth but remains largely unknown.
Isabella Bird's travels have been documented in 11 books collating her correspondences and reflectionsA brand new three-part series Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip will see Ruby Wax, Melanie Brown and Emily Atack re-trace the footsteps of Yorkshire-born Victorian explorer Isabella Bird. Ahead of the first episode the BBC takes a look at the life of the extraordinary, but largely forgotten, pioneer.
The trip lit a fire within and, over the following 50 years, she travelled to the four corners of the earth. Bird was born in 1831 to Edward Bird, a man of the cloth renowned for his animated services, and his wife Dora. Bird wrote of that adventure: "I screamed and wept, rendered speechless at seeing the most unutterable of wonderful things."
Describing her in a 2013 episode of Great Lives, novelist Meg Rosoff said she was a "small, rather plump woman less than 5ft tall, who dressed like Queen Victoria in kind of stiff, black rustling silks and yet she travelled to every far-flung corner of the world where almost nobody else had ever been".
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