Isabella Bird
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Isabella Lucy Bishop was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-
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Isabella Bird wearing Manchurian clothing from a journey through China.
Illustration of two Ainu men, originally from her 1880 book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Clock tower in Tobermory built with funds donated by Isabella Lucy Bird
Kashmir
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Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal
Isabella Bird
…photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. She was the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall in Yorkshire…
A white border painted on a suspended bridge delineates Azad Kashmir from Jammu and Kashmir
K2, the second-highest mountain in the world
Horses grazing at a Himalayan meadow below the Gangabal Lake in Jammu and Kashmir
Himalayan bulbul eating berries near Mehmood Gali, Azad Jammu and Kashmir