In 1854 a young Isabella Bird crossed the Atlantic to Halifax and travelled through Nova Scotia, Canada and the eastern and midwestern United States. She records bad roads and night coaches, Bluenoses and Highland settlers, American patriotism, Niagara, the cities and the manners of the railway car, with the racial attitudes of an Englishwoman of the 1850s.
The first book of one of the great Victorian travel writers, lively and opinionated from the first page. Download the free EPUB.