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Travels in Peru and India / While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. — Clements R., Sir Markham

Travels in Peru and India / While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.

Clements R., Sir Markham

  • Travel
  • Book language: English
  • 509 pages

Travels in Peru and India is a nineteenth-century travel narrative by Sir Clements R. Markham. It describes his expedition to collect chinchona plants and seeds in South America and introduce them to India, where quinine was valued against fevers. It is valuable for its firsthand view of Andean forests, botanical exploration, and colonial science.

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HINCHONA-PLANTS AT OOTACAMUND,
In August 1881 (from a Photograph). A flowering branch of
Chinchona in the foreground.
FRONTISPIECE.    Page 487

TRAVELS

IN

PERU AND INDIA.

WHILE SUPERINTENDING THE COLLECTION OF CHINCHONA

PLANTS AND SEEDS IN SOUTH AMERICA, AND

THEIR INTRODUCTION INTO INDIA.

BΏ CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, F.S.A., F.R.G.S.,

CORR. MEM. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHILE;

AUTHOR OF 'CUZCO AND LIMA.'

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1862.

The right of Translation is reserved.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

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Contents

  1. TRAVELS IN PERU AND INDIA.
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. POSTSCRIPT.
  6. TRAVELS IN PERU.
  7. CHAPTER I.
  8. CHAPTER II.
  9. CHAPTER III.
  10. CHAPTER IV.
  11. CHAPTER V.
  12. CHAPTER VI.
  13. CHAPTER VII.
  14. CHAPTER VIII.
  15. CHAPTER IX.
  16. CHAPTER X.
  17. CHAPTER XI.
  18. CHAPTER XII.
  19. CHAPTER XIII.
  20. CHAPTER XIV.
  21. CHAPTER XV.
  22. CHAPTER XVI.
  23. CHAPTER XVII.
  24. CHAPTER XVIII.
  25. CHAPTER XIX.
  26. CHAPTER XX.
  27. TRAVELS IN INDIA.
  28. CHAPTER XXI.
  29. CHAPTER XXII.
  30. CHAPTER XXIII.

and 13 more chapters

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