Autor/-in: Isabella L. Bird

Isabella Bird was a nineteenth century English explorer, writer, and natural historian whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1879 she visited Malaya, Singapore, Indo-China and Hong Kong, writing 23 letters home to her sister Hennie in Scotland, and naming the collection The Golden Chersonese, the ancient Greek name for the Malay Peninsul