Rockies – tonyturton.com https://www.tonyturton.com Just, er, stuff Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:28:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.tonyturton.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-tt_logo_750-32x32.png Rockies – tonyturton.com https://www.tonyturton.com 32 32 My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir https://www.tonyturton.com/muir-first-summer-in-sierra/ Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.tonyturton.com/muir-first-summer-in-sierra/ Title: My First Summer in the Sierra
Author: Muir, John
Published by: Canongate Publishing Ltd, Edinburgh
Year: 1988
First published: 1911
Date reviewed: 09.00
ISBN: 0-86241-193-9

Yes, it’s the John Muir. Not great literature, but worth a quick skip-read it for its curiosity value.

]]> A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella https://www.tonyturton.com/bird-ladys-life-rocky-mountains/ Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:42:09 +0000 http://www.tonyturton.com/bird-ladys-life-rocky-mountains/ … Continue reading →]]> Title: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Bird, Isabella
Published by: Virago
First published: 1879
Date reviewed: 01.00

The book describes the experiences of an exceptional English woman travelling alone in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. This was the time before Colorado became a State of the Union, and life was mostly hard and brutish. Isabella Bird happily endured hardships and deprivation that would daunt most modern travellers. The book is composed from the letters she sent to her sister in England.

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