Travels in Peru and India
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In 1859 Clements Markham was sent by the Secretary of State for India to gather cinchona plants and seeds in South America and arrange their introduction into India, where quinine was close to a necessity. This 1862 account follows him into the forests of Caravaya in Peru, with a history of the cinchona species and the work of the collectors he employed elsewhere on the continent. Three chapters turn aside to Spanish colonial rule over the Peruvian Indians and the 1780 rising of Tupac Amaru. The second part covers his travels in India and the first plantations there.
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- Author
- Clements R. Markham
- Reading time
- About 14 hours
- Pages
- 389
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Biology
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