Natural History

Himalayan Journals

by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Hooker, a botanist and Darwin’s closest friend, spent 1848 and 1849 in Sikkim and eastern Nepal, collecting plants on the high passes below Kangchenjunga. He sent home the seeds of rhododendrons that changed British gardens, and he and Archibald Campbell were held prisoner for some weeks by the Sikkim court. These journals, of 1854, are full of glaciers, passes, monasteries and weather.

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About 18 hr 10 min

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #6478. In the public domain in the United States.