Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing…

— Isabella Bird

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is…

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The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For…

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Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

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The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the…

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The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

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On the whole, I find that it is best to adopt as far as possible the travelling equipments of the country in…

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Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural…

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The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects…

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My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon…

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Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the…

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Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs.…

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Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

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Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and…

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At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that…

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If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled…

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I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

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Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour…

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There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water,…

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I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is…

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A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

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My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave…

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The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the…

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I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

— Isabella Bird