This dashing picture book biography takes us around the world with a
daring Victorian female explorer and author.
Exploring was easier said than done for a young woman in
nineteenth-century England. But somehow Isabella persisted, and with
each journey, she breathed in new ways to see and describe everything
around her. Question by question, word by word, Isabella bloomed.
First, out in the English countryside. Then, off to America and Canada.
And eventually, around the world, to Africa, Asia, Australia, and more.
Always more--more places, more questions, more words--and all those
experiences became books, in which she described the land she traveled,
the people she met, and the dangers she experienced.
And finally, Isabella returned home to England, where she became the
first female member of the Royal Geographic Society and was presented to
the Queen. But to wild-vine Isabella, the world was home.
Back matter features an author's note, bibliography, and timeline.