Description
The travels and publications of Joseph Hooker, author of the “Himalayan Journals,” are inextricably tied to British colonialism and Empire-building. Travelling in his role as director of the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, he collected about 7,000 species in India and Nepal, added 25 new rhododendron species to Kew (creating a rhododendron craze among British gardeners), and brought over samples of both rubber and quinine from the Amazon. Hooker dedicated these” Journals “to his close friend Charles Darwin. Contents of this work–reprinted here in two parts–include many pictures and foldout maps of the areas covered by his travels.
