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)

9781108029360, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 June 2011

522 pages, 42 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.66 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 2 continues Hooker's description of Nepal and Sikkim (including his brief imprisonment) and his return to Calcutta to begin his journey back to Great Britain.

18. Arrangements for second journey into Sikkim
19. Routes from Choontam to Tibet frontier
20. Camp on Zemu river
21. Top of Kongra Lama
22. Leave Lachoong for Tunkra pass
23. Donkia glaciers
24. Ascent of Bhomtso
25. Journey to the Rajah's residence at Tumloong
26. Dr. Campbell is ordered to appear at Durbar
27. Leave Dorjiling for Calcutta
28. Churra, English station of
29. View of Himalaya from the Khasia
30. Boat voyage to Silhet
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]