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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive a feisty independent-minded traveller are among the very earliest written accounts of India by a British woman. Married to Lord Edward Clive son of Clive of India and Governor of Madras (1798-1803) she travelled through southern India with her daughters and retinue in the aftermath of the war against Tipu Sultan. In this their first publication Nancy K Shields skillfully interweaves extracts from the journals with passages from the diary of Charly Henrietta’s precocious twelve-year-old daughter who went on to tutor the future Queen Victoria first Empress of India. She also includes extracts from Henrietta’s impassioned correspondence with her beloved Byronic brother the rakish George Herbert Earl of Powis beside whom Edward Clive appears to have been a very dull spo Important as an historical and as a social document and also as an early female travel text Birds of Passage is illustrated with watercolours by Anna Tonelli who accompanied the party on their voyage.