The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
