If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used. — Isabella Bird Copy Share
The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist. — Isabella Bird Copy Share
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it… — Isabella Bird Copy Share
