Isabella Bird Quotes


Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.


Citations

Bird, Isabella L. The Englishwoman in America. John Murray, 1856.

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Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird
  • Born: October 15, 1831
  • Died: October 7, 1904
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Explorer, Writer, Photographer Naturalist

Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.