Bird, Isabella Lucy (1831–1904)

British traveller and writer who wrote extensively of her journeys in the USA, Persia, Tibet, Kurdistan, China, Japan, and Korea. A fearless horsewoman, she generally travelled alone and in later life undertook medical missionary work.

Her published works include The Englishwoman in America (1856), A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1874), Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880), Among the Tibetans (1894), and Pictures from China (1900). She made her last great journey in 1901, when she travelled over 1,600 km/1,000 mi in Morocco.