Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker : traveller and plant collector / Ray Desmond ; preface by Sir Ghillean Prance

Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 286 pages: illustrations (some color), maps, portraits; 28 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index. Contents: 1. Formative years -- 2. Antarctic exploration and the start of Hooker's travels -- 3. Voyage into Antarctica -- 4. The search for the southern continent -- 5. An interlude -- 6. Once more on his travels -- 7. Arrival at Darjeeling -- 8. A tour of East Nepal -- 9. Exploration of Sikkim -- 10. Assam -- 11. Publications based on his Indian travels -- 12. An uncertain future -- 13. Visit to the Middle East -- 14. Morocco -- 15. Presidency of the Royal Society and a knighthood -- 16. A pioneer plant geographer -- 17. An active retirement. Subjects: Hooker, Joseph Dalton 1817-1911 Travel. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Botanical illustration History 19th century. Expeditions history. Botany. Botanical illustration. Plant collecting History 19th century. Botanists Great Britain; Biography. Genre: Biographies. History.