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Isabella Bird, the Glossary

Isabella Lucy Bishop (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.^[1]

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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book by British explorer Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the on the frontier of the United States.

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Anime News Network

Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan.

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Anna Wolfrom

Anna Wolfrom (ca. 1872–July 12, 1950) was a pioneer homesteader, teacher, writer, and businesswoman in Estes Park, Colorado.

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Armenia

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Balochistan

Balochistan (Balòcestàn), also spelled Baluchistan or Baluchestan, is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.

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Boroughbridge

Boroughbridge is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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British Malaya

The term "British Malaya" (Tanah Melayu British) loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British hegemony or control between the late 18th and the mid-20th century.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Caryl Churchill

Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Colin Alexander McVean

Colin Alexander McVean, FRGS (6 March 1838 – 18 January 1912) was a Scottish civil engineer who made a considerable contribution to Japan's engineering development in 1870s.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado Women's Hall of Fame

The Colorado Women's Hall of Fame is a non-profit, volunteer organization that recognizes women who have contributed to the history of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Dean Cemetery

The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland.

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Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edward Whymper

Edward Whymper FRSE (27 April 184016 September 1911) was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Isabella Bird and Edward Whymper are English explorers.

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Eldridge M. Moores

Eldridge Moores (October 13, 1938 – October 28, 2018) was an American geologist.

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Emily Atack

Emily Jane Atack (born 18 December 1989) is an English actress, comedian, and television personality.

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Fanny Jane Butler

Fanny Jane Butler (5 October 1850 – 26 October 1889) was a medical missionary from England who was among the first female doctors to travel to India and the first fully trained doctor from England to do so.

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Fatigue

Fatigue describes a state of tiredness (which is not sleepiness), exhaustion or loss of energy.

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Free trade

Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports.

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Han River (Korea)

The Han River is a major river in South Korea, with some of its tributaries and drainage basin in North Korea.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Henry Wellcome

Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (August 21, 1853 – July 25, 1936) was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Isabella Bird

Isabella Lucy Bishop (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Isabella Bird and Isabella Bird are 19th-century women writers, British expatriates in China, British women travel writers, English explorers, English travel writers, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, female explorers, female travelers, people from Boroughbridge and women of the Victorian era.

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Isabella Bird in Wonderland

is a manga series by, published by Kadokawa, portraying Isabella Bird's exploration of Japan.

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James Nugent (Estes Park)

James Nugent, known as "Rocky Mountain Jim" (died 1874) was prominent in the early history of Estes Park, in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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John Bird Sumner

John Bird Sumner (25 February 1780 – 6 September 1862) was a bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury.

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John Francis Campbell

John Francis Campbell (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Frangan Caimbeul; Islay, 29 December 1821 – Cannes, 17 February 1885), also known as Young John of Islay (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Òg Ìle) was a Scottish author and scholar who specialised in Celtic studies, considered an authority on the subject.

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John Murray (publishing house)

John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.

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John Murray III

John Murray III (1808–1892) was a British publisher, third of the name at the John Murray company founded in London in 1777.

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Kaneyama, Yamagata

Kaneyama scene is a town located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.

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Karun

The Karun (کارون) is the Iranian river with the highest water flow, and the country's only navigable river.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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Kurdistan

Kurdistan (lit), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based.

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Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Maidenhead

Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames.

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Mauna Kea

Mauna Kea (abbreviation for Mauna a Wākea); is an inactive shield volcano on the island of Hawaiokinai.

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Mauna Loa

Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

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Mel B

Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975), commonly known as Mel B or Melanie B, is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Protectionism

Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Robert Merttins Bird

Robert Merttins Bird (1788–1853) was a British civil servant in the Bengal Presidency.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Photographic Society

The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies.

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Royal Scottish Geographical Society

The Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) is an educational charity based in Perth, Scotland founded in 1884.

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Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax (born 19 April 1953) is a British-American actress, comedian, writer, television personality, and mental health campaigner.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet

Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet FRS (13 November 1806 – 5 April 1881) was an English palaeontologist and Conservative politician from the Egerton family.

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South Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Cheshire was a parliamentary constituency in Cheshire, England represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1868.

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Srinagar

Srinagar (English) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.

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St Thomas' Church, Birmingham

St Thomas' Church, Bath Row, is a former Church of England parish church in Birmingham.

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Taplow

Taplow is a village and civil parish in the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Tattenhall

Tattenhall is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tattenhall and District, south-east of Chester, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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The Leisure Hour

The Leisure Hour was a British general-interest periodical of the Victorian era published weekly from 1852 to 1905.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Tobermory, Mull

Tobermory (Tobar Mhoire) is the capital of, and until 1973 the only burgh on, the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.

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Top Girls

Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi.

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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

is a book by the English travel writer Isabella Bird, in the form of letters to her sister, describing her journey from Tokyo to Hokkaido in 1878, when she was 46.

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Ushū Kaidō

The was a subroute of the Ōshū Kaidō and the Sendaidō in Japan.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

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William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

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William Wilberforce Bird (merchant)

William Wilberforce Bird (2 July 1758 – 19 April 1836), merchant, civil servant and author, was the Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1796 to 1802.

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Wyton, Cambridgeshire

Wyton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Houghton and Wyton, in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Yangtze

Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird

Also known as Isabella Bird Bishop, Isabella Bishop, Isabella L. Bird, Isabella Lucy (Bird) Bishop, Isabella Lucy Bird, Isabella Lucy Bishop, Mrs. Isabella Bishop.

, Mel B, Member of parliament, Missionary, Morocco, Protectionism, Robert Merttins Bird, Rocky Mountains, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Photographic Society, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Ruby Wax, Singapore, Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet, South Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency), Srinagar, St Thomas' Church, Birmingham, Taplow, Tattenhall, Tehran, The Leisure Hour, Tibet, Tobermory, Mull, Top Girls, Turkey, Typhoid fever, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Ushū Kaidō, Vietnam, William Wilberforce, William Wilberforce Bird (merchant), Wyton, Cambridgeshire, Yangtze.

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