Himalayan Journals 2 Volume Set : Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. Mixed media product
by Joseph Dalton Hooker
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture series
Mixed media product
Description
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 in 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.
He makes many observations about the inhabitants of the areas he visited, making the book a useful resource for anyone interested in nineteenth-century India.
Information
-
Item not Available
- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:976 pages, 13 Plates, unspecified; 2 Maps; 80 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/06/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108029377
Information
-
Item not Available
- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:976 pages, 13 Plates, unspecified; 2 Maps; 80 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/06/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108029377
