Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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)