Like the Queen of Cups, Isabella Bird traveled with deep intuition and an open heart: turning solitude into strength and adventure into healing. Her journeys remind us that rivers etch their stories into stone.

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📖 Isabella Bird continues!
Live reading from our garden. This is Part 2, but if you missed the start, Part 1 is where the adventure begins. 🌸🚶‍♀️

Start here 👉 youtube.com/live/GbWczZa...
Then join me for Part 2 👉 youtube.com/live/gLjMRbe...

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🏯 Japan, 1878.
A Victorian woman steps off the ship and into a world she’s never seen.
Part 4 of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan — read from my engawa.

🎧 youtu.be/B6uJlKsftbQ

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"I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh." (On the Rocky Mountains)

✒ #IsabellaBird, English historian, naturalist, and explorer, #DOTD 7 October 1904. #History #Travel