Himalayan Journals — Complete

As the Moozuffer steams through the Sunderbunds, its paddles fling up great palm fruits whose ancient kin lie buried in the mud of the Thames. Joseph Dalton Hooker sees a link between two distant worlds in the river’s smallest details.

In 1848, the naturalist reaches India and travels from Calcutta toward Bengal’s coal country, watching landscapes and plants with a geologist’s eye as well as a botanist’s. The flat, dry country is nothing like the India he expected; the palkee jolts, the dust stings, and every change of ground brings something new to examine. From mangrove swamps to gardens, villages and forested hills, Hooker follows the evidence of a world still unfamiliar to him—and soon the Himalayas beckon. What will the mountains disclose to a traveler who finds a scientific clue in a floating fruit?

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