Wrote intimate and informal letters home to her sister, Henrietta, and laterĪn instant best-seller, earning her fame and financial independence. To ride astride her horse, a position that solved her chronic back problems. She became an excellent horsewoman, learning Loved the coral reefs, volcanic landscapes and tropical forests. Hawaii because “there are none of the social constraints of colonial rule or It was a seven-month stop-over in Hawaii, on her way home from Australia in (it was hot, she said, and full of flies and drunk men), New Zealand, the Pinnacles of bold grey rock as they pierce the blue of the sky.”Īround the world, making many trips to the U.S. Into fringes as they come down upon the ‘park,’ and the mountains breaking into This is an upland valley of grass and flowers, of gladesĪnd sloping lawns, and cherry-fringed beds of dry streams, and clumps of pinesĪrtistically placed, and mountain sides densely pine-clad, the pines breaking IĬannot by any words give you an idea of scenery so different from any that you “This is no region for tourists and women, only for a few elkĪnd bear hunters at times, and its unprofaned freshness gives me new life. United States, where she began writing the compelling natural history that made
However, she set her course for the wilderness, wherever she could find Unlike other well-bred Europeans of the time, Is said that when she died, her bags were packed for her next planned expedition.
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