About the book: 2021 / Isabella Lucy Bird was born in England in 1831 and throughout her life she was in such poor health that her doctor advised her to travel more. She took his advice and loved traveling so much that she became the first woman to be elected a member of the Royal Geographical Society! A middle-aged Victorian lady, driven by an insatiable thirst for discovery, picked up her full skirts and fearlessly set out towards the unknown. Isabella Bird visited India, Tibet, Kurdistan, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, America, Australia, Hawaii and the Malay Peninsula and wrote fourteen successful books about her adventures. "Among the Tibetans" tells the story of an 1889 trip to Ladakh, a historical region of India, and invites the reader to plunge into the exotic, Buddhist-infused atmosphere of a place called Little Tibet.