Among the Tibetans Paperback - 2001

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She was a legend, and now she is forgotten. She risked her life to bring back tales about exotic places, and now those tales lie lost. She rode horses in wild countries, while the majority of her fellow English women were content to reside at home. Her name was Isabella Bird and she was one of the greatest equestrian travelers of all time. Alas, this fickle world has laid aside her wonderful story for too long. No one could have foreseen the amazing life that lay ahead of the clergyman's daughter. Of moderate means, blessed with ill-health, unwed, physically unimpressive, Isabella Bird had every reason to stay at home in the safety of her English village. She choose instead to venture out into the world, a place in the late 19th century still full of dangers, brigands, discomforts, and unexplored countries. And, whenever possible, Isabella chose to see the world from the back of a horse! "Among the Tibetans" is one of her five famous equestrian trips. She had ridden through out the Hawaiian paradise. She had crossed the mighty Rocky Mountains on horseback. She explored Japan and went on to canter across Morocco when she was in her seventies. But of all her equestrian adventures, her ride through Tibet takes precedence. For it was here, in this vast, windswept, frozen northland that the intrepid English woman nearly met her match! She and her little horse, "Gyalo," were dashed into icy rivers. They crossed passes so high that the porters begged for mercy. They saw more adventure, and covered more miles than had ever been experienced by a female equestrian explorer. "Among the Tibetans" is that most wonderful of books, a rousing adventure, an enchanting travelogue, a forgotten peek at a mountain kingdom swept away by the waves of time