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Viaje al corazón del Tíbet del siglo XIX con el cautivador relato de viaje de Isabella L. Bird, "Entre los tibetanos". Publicado por primera vez en 1894, este extraordinario audiolibro ofrece una mirada única a un mundo que pocos occidentales habían explorado en aquella época. Bird, una pionera viajera y escritora victoriana, invita a los oyentes a unirse a ella en una expedición extraordinaria a través de los agrestes paisajes del Tíbet y Ladakh. C

These are the valiant and lyrically descriptive letters, written in 1873, by Isabella Bird, a courageous and spirited Englishwoman, telling her sister of her adventures on horseback over 800 miles of American wilderness.

From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’.