Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“I should like to have detained each hour as it passed. It was thorough enjoyment.”
- Source
- Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- Date
- 1880
- Local voice
- Authorial / signed preface voice · Isabella L. Bird (travel-letter narrator)
Meaning of “I should like to have detained each hour…”
Bird describes a travel interval so pleasurable that she wishes she could slow its passing and remain inside the experience longer.
Where does it come from?
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, represented by Project Gutenberg #2184. The sentence belongs to Bird’s first-person travel-letter narration and records her own enjoyment during the journey; nineteenth-century travel and cultural observations elsewhere in the work remain historical testimony.
Why the local voice matters
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan; Bird describes a personally enjoyable stage of her journey in first-person travel writing.