1850 Joseph Hooker - HIMALAYA - TIBET - MAP - SIGNED

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or Search by Topic Africa America - North America -South Arabia - Middle East Arctic - Antarctic Asia - Central Asia - China & Japan Asia - Southeast Australia & Pacific Bibliographies Europe Globes Graphic Arts Literature Maps & Prints Mountaineering Natural History Russia Sciences Signed & Inscribed Sir Richard F. Burton Joseph Hooker's Himalaya Rare Preliminary Account with Map - Tipped in Signature of Joseph Hooker - Title: A Fourth Excursion to the Passes into Thibet by the Donkiah Lah. Author: HOOKER, Dr. J. D. Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society, 1850 Notes & Condition: This is a scarce first-hand account together with the color expedition map by Joseph Dalton Hooker, outlining his important fourth excursion into virtually unknown eastern Himalayan passes to Tibet . Hooker spent three years engaged in botanical exploration and topographical surveying in the eastern Himalayas, from 1847 to 1850, was the first explorer of the region since Turner's embassy to Tibet in 1789, and also the first European to collect plants in the Himalayas. Hooker endured a most adventurous journey, including a period of imprisonment in Sikkim, where he was detained for several weeks by the raja. He travelled extensively in India and the Himalayas in 1849, spent considerable time in eastern Bengal and the Khasi read more

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