Named source · 1875

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Isabella L. Bird’s 1875 travel-letter collection The Hawaiian Archipelago

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Travel, Hawaiʻi, outdoor life, landscape, horseback journeys, health experience and first-person observation.

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I am gaining health daily, and almost live in the open air.

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“I am gaining health daily, and almost live in the open air.”

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Voice: Authorial / signed preface voice · Isabella L. Bird (travel-letter narrator)

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Bird reports that outdoor travel coincided with her feeling progressively better, presenting the statement as personal experience rather than a prescription for others.

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The Hawaiian Archipelago, represented by Project Gutenberg #6750. Bird writes in the first person about her own condition and outdoor life in Hawaiʻi. The historical self-report is not medical advice and does not establish that travel or open air will treat another person’s illness.

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