[Gutenberg 27981] • The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
- Authors
- Reid, Mayne
- Publisher
- Fredonia Books
- Tags
- plant collectors -- fiction , adventure , brothers -- fiction , adventure and adventurers -- fiction , himalaya mountains -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9781589636996
- Date
- 1858-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.87 MB
- Lang
- en
Originally published in 1858 at the height of the passion for exotic specimens, this is the story of a young Bavarian botanist, Karl Linden, engaged in a plant-hunting expedition to the stupendous mountains of the Himalayas in Tibet. It is an early narrative and primary source, with commentaries on the Himalayas, plant hunting, inspecting cliffs, the Ibex & other fauna, ascent of mountains, aerostatics, and of course the botany and value of the plants they are collecting.