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RETRACING JOSEPH HOOKER'S ROUTES IN THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA
Author(s) -
O'Brien Seamus
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
curtis's botanical magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8748
pISSN - 1355-4905
DOI - 10.1111/curt.12195
Subject(s) - trips architecture , biography , period (music) , geography , archaeology , geology , ancient history , history , art history , art , engineering , transport engineering , aesthetics
Joseph Hooker was one of the most widely travelled botanists of the Victorian period, having explored regions as far afield as Antarctica, Morocco and North America, though it is for his pioneering exploration of the Sikkim Himalaya that he is perhaps best remembered. Seamus O'Brien led four expeditions to this remote corner of the eastern Himalaya, and the results of these trips will appear in a new biography due to be published by Kew in 2018. He summarises that story here.