
Himalayan Journals: Volume 1: Or, Notes Of A Naturalist In Bengal, The Sikkim And Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains, Etc. (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany And Horticulture)
Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the nineteenth century. He succeeded his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close friend and supporter of Charles Darwin. His journey to the Himalayas and India was undertaken between 1847 and 1851 to collect plants for Kew, and his account, published i...
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 7, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0511996756
ISBN-13: 978-0511996757
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1854, was dedicated to Darwin. Hooker collected some 7,000 species in India and Nepal, and carried out surveys and made maps which proved of economic and military importance to the British. He was arrested by the Rajah of Sikkim, but the British authorities secured his release by threatening to invade, and annexing part of the small kingdom. Volume 1 begins at his arrival in Calcutta, and follows his travels northward to Sikkim and Nepal via Bangalore and Darjeeling, and then on to Tibet.
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