Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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)