Nearly 150 years ago, a female traveler from Britain arrived in Japan. It was May 1878, the 11th year of the Meiji era. Only ...

Isabella Bird was an adventurer, naturalist, and somewhat enigmatic writer, not so much as in what she wrote, more as to what she left out of the telling. Traveling alone as a 40-something single ...

English adventurer and writer Isabella Bird’s legacy is being kept alive as mountaineers climb Longs Peak in commemoration of Bird’s ascent 150 years ago. On Thursday, a party of eight climbed the ...

Latest news and in-depth analyses on Japanese politics, business, crime,technology, society and culture from Okinawa to Fukushima to Tokyo,translated into English from the oldest daily newspaper in ...

Editor’s note: This week the Reporter-Herald will share stories from historian Kenneth Jessen of women in Loveland-area history to mark Women’s History Month. Isabella Bird was an author and world ...

Isabella Bird was an author and world traveler who was stopped by few obstacles including her own health problems. In August 1873 after a stop in Hawaii, she sailed to San Francisco and then traveled ...

As a child in the 1830s, adventurer and writer Isabella Bird suffered from mysterious maladies that improved when she indulged her wanderlust. At 22, “Isabella sailed away. Away from England. Away ...

English explorer Isabella Bird (1831-1904) spent nearly seven months of 1873 touring the Hawaiian Islands, and published her experiences there two years later in her book “Six Months in the Sandwich ...

A 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 ...