Novelist Evelyn Waugh
was an ardent admirer of this book after coming on a copy by chance in 1950. His children liked it as much as he did, and thirty years later one of them,...
Publishing
Isabella Bird
Before publication in book form, some of the letters appeared in periodicals such as Out West and The Leisure Hour. The book was translated for a French edition and published in America by G. P. Putnam Sons