Altitude, beauty, and crowded unfamiliarity can overwhelm a traveler at once.
Evidence
Somewhat dazed by the rarefied air, entranced by the glorious beauty, slightly puzzled by the motley company, whose faces loomed not always quite distinctly through the cloud of smoke produced by eleven pipes, I went to my solitary cabin at nine, attended by Evans. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 134
Categorization
- FICTION: The dazed, pipe-smoke-dimmed arrival establishes a stranger entering a rough communal world she does not yet read correctly.
- XREF: connects to: Extreme altitude beauty makes leaving a place feel impossible. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 235; Travel yields little the traveler did not already possess perceptively — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 661; Sheer numbers of strangers can overwhelm every other impression — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 3 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Travel yields little the traveler did not already possess perceptively
#responds-to(0.95) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 661 - Sheer numbers of strangers can overwhelm every other impression
#corroborates(0.95) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 3 - Isolation makes benign mountains swell into impassable psychological barriers
#expands(0.95) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 227 - Extreme altitude beauty makes leaving a place feel impossible.
#complicates(0.85) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 235 - Deep mountain gorges produce dread rather than comfort in solitary travelers.
#complicates(0.85) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 199 - Travelers’ prior imaginings shape what they see more than observation does.
#complicates(0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 450 - Intense high-altitude light can make solitude exhilarating instead of oppressive
#complicates(0.85) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 222