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Himalayan Journals — Complete / Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. — Joseph Dalton Hooker

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

Joseph Dalton Hooker

  • Travel
  • Book language: English
  • 792 pages

Himalayan Journals is the travel narrative of the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, drawn from his journeys through Bengal, Sikkim, Nepal and the Khasia Mountains. He records plants, landscapes, weather and the people he meets along the way, in the observant style of a Victorian naturalist. It offers a slow, detailed picture of the eastern Himalayas.

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Himalayan Journals
OR,
NOTES OF A NATURALIST
IN BENGAL, THE SIKKIM AND NEPAL HIMALAYAS,
THE KHASIA MOUNTAINS, &C.
by J.D. Hooker,
K.C.S.I., C.B., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.
1891
Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
Sunderbunds vegetation—Calcutta Botanic Garden—Leave for
Burdwan—Rajah’s gardens and menagerie—Coal-beds, geology,
and plants of—Lac insect and plant—Camels—Kunker—Cowage—
Effloresced soda on soil—Glass, manufacture of—Atmospheric
vapours—Temperature,
etc.—Mahowa
oil
and
spirits—
Maddaobund—Jains—Ascent of Paras-nath—Vegetation of that
mountain.

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Contents

  1. Himalayan Journals
  2. OR, NOTES OF A NATURALIST IN BENGAL, THE SIKKIM AND NEPAL HIMALAYAS, THE KHASIA MOUNTAINS, &C.
  3. Contents
  4. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. PREFACE
  6. Chapter I
  7. Chapter II
  8. Chapter III
  9. Chapter IV
  10. Chapter V
  11. Chapter VI
  12. Chapter VII
  13. Chapter VIII
  14. Chapter IX
  15. Chapter X
  16. Chapter XI
  17. Chapter XII
  18. Chapter XIII
  19. Chapter XIV
  20. Chapter XV
  21. Chapter XVI
  22. Chapter XVII
  23. Chapter XVIII
  24. Chapter XIX
  25. Chapter XX
  26. Chapter XXI
  27. Chapter XXII
  28. Chapter XXIII
  29. Chapter XXIV
  30. Chapter XXV

and 8 more chapters

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