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Keeping up with formidable traveller Isabella Bird
This fearless Victorian adventurer wasn’t restricted by boundaries – of social convention or otherwise – as she hopped the globe leaving good deeds in her wake
By Ed Peters / 26 Apr 2019
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Credit: Royal Geographical Society / Getty Images
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