Quote of the day
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Isabella Bird
Born: October 15, 1831
Died: October 7, 1904 (aged 72)
Bio: Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar.
Known for:
- Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
- A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)
- Korea and Her Neighbours (1897)
- The Englishwoman in America (1856)
- Among the Tibetans (1894)