Himalayan Journals Or Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, C Classic Reprint - Paperback

Excerpt from Himalayan Journals: Or Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &C The "Himalayan Journals" of Sir Joseph Hooker at once took rank, on their first publication, with the most interesting and informing books of travel in existence. The book was, however, inaccessible to the general public on account of its price, but has long been one of those works that every science student would like to have on his shelves. The Editor was therefore specially gratified when Sir Joseph Hooker consented to the publication of this inexpensive edition, and Mr. Murray agreed to supply copies of the original woodcuts, many of them from original drawings by Sir Joseph. The book will speak for itself. It is reprinted from the first (unabridged) edition, with the omission of some of the appendices which were only of limited general interest. A slight sketch of the career of the author will be welcome to many readers. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker is the second son of the late Sir W. J. Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens, his mother having been a daughter of Mr. Dawson Turner, F.R.S., of Yarmouth. He was born in 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk, and after the usual course of medical study, graduated M.D. in 1839, at Glasgow University, where his father was then Regius Professor of Botany. When only twenty-two he went as assistant-surgeon, and practically, though not officially, as naturalist, with the famous Antarctic Expedition of 1839-43, under Sir James Clark Ross, in H.M. ships Erebus and Terror. The botanical results of the expedition were published during subsequent years by Sir Joseph (then Dr.) Hooker in six splendid quarto volumes, which included the flora of the Auckland Islands, New Zealand, and Tasmania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech