Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAP. I PARENTAGE AND INHERITANCE
- CHAP. II FIRST TRAVELS AND PUBLICATIONS
- CHAP. III EDINBURGH AND WORK
- CHAP. IV IN JOURNEYINGS OFT
- CHAP. V THE WIDE EAST
- CHAP. VI “AN TAON BHEANNICHT” (“THE BLESSED ONE”)
- CHAP. VII MARRIAGE
- CHAP. VIII LOSS
- CHAP. IX “THROUGH MANY LANDS”
- CHAP. X NATIONS THAT SIT IN DARKNESS
- CHAP. XI PUBLIC WORK
- CHAP. XII THE FAR EAST
- CHAP. XIII THE CHANGING EAST
- CHAP. XIV LAST JOURNEYS
- CHAP. XV “I AM GOING HOME”
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- PART OF NORTH AMERICA
- Plate section
CHAP. XIV - LAST JOURNEYS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAP. I PARENTAGE AND INHERITANCE
- CHAP. II FIRST TRAVELS AND PUBLICATIONS
- CHAP. III EDINBURGH AND WORK
- CHAP. IV IN JOURNEYINGS OFT
- CHAP. V THE WIDE EAST
- CHAP. VI “AN TAON BHEANNICHT” (“THE BLESSED ONE”)
- CHAP. VII MARRIAGE
- CHAP. VIII LOSS
- CHAP. IX “THROUGH MANY LANDS”
- CHAP. X NATIONS THAT SIT IN DARKNESS
- CHAP. XI PUBLIC WORK
- CHAP. XII THE FAR EAST
- CHAP. XIII THE CHANGING EAST
- CHAP. XIV LAST JOURNEYS
- CHAP. XV “I AM GOING HOME”
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- PART OF NORTH AMERICA
- Plate section
Summary
Mrs. Bishop's last record in her diary for 1897 is—
Farewell, year! Thy griefs and pains
Now are gathered to the past.
She sent out her New Year's card, with two mottoes: Russell Lowell's “Not failure but low aim is crime,” and the old Korean proverb—“You can recover an arrow that you have shot, but not a word that you have spoken.”
After the publication of Korea and her Neighbours, she received daily letters of congratulation and innumerable reviews, all “monotonously favourable” and recognising the closeness of observation, accuracy of fact, and correctness of inference displayed in it. She admitted that the consensus of favourable opinion on the book, and the recognition of the labour bestowed on it, were very gratifying, “as it cost me more toil and careful investigation than all my other books put together.” She writes (January 19), before the book had been out ten days: “The second edition is to be ready on Friday and is more than half ordered. It is the political interest which is selling it.” In a letter to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart she strikes the same note:
It is less as a book of travels, than as a book on the political situation that it is commended, and it was just the political part which I thought would bring down a good deal of hostile criticism. Lord Salisbury writes to Mr. Murray that he is in the midst of it. […]
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- The Life of Isabella Bird , pp. 344 - 368Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1906