The life and times of explorer Isabella Bird – and tips for solo travellers in the Covid age To mark International Women’s Day, delve into the Victorian traveller's daring deeds – and the writer's recreation of one of her journeys 8 March 2021 • 11:49am 'Fascinated by Bird’s story, I felt I needed to understand her motivation for undertaking such extreme journeys' Credit: GETTY America was no place for tourists in the years surrounding the American Civil War. It was a lawless, dangerous country, certainly not the place for a young English girl to be riding thousands of miles in cram...