Himalayan Journals
Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.

Sir Joseph Hooker's fascinating account of a botanical expedition to Northern India, Nepal and Tibet between 1847 and 1851.

Joseph Dalton Hooker (Author)

9781108029353, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 June 2011

462 pages, 51 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg

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. 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.

Preface
1. Sunderbunds vegetation
2. Doomree
3. Ek-powa Ghat
4. Leave Bhaugulpore
5. View from Mr. Hodgon's of range of snowy mountains
6. Excursion from Dorjiling to Great Rungeet
7. Continue the ascent of Tonglo
8. Difficulty in procuring leave to enter Sikkimi
9. Leave Mywa
10. Return from Wallanchoon pass
11. Ascend to Nago mountain
12. Yalloong valley
13. Raklang pass
14. Tassiding, view of and from
15. Leave Yoksun for Kinchinjunga
16. Ratong river below Mon Lepcha
17. Dispatch collections.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]