Travels in Peru and India

by Clements Robert Markham

Book Overview

Sir Clements Robert Markham (1830-1916) had a lifelong interest in Peru. Having already travelled there in his early twenties, he was commissioned to return ten years later to supervise the collection of sufficient specimens of the cinchona tree for its introduction to India. The bark of the tree yielded quinine, by then a well-known febrifuge and one of the few effective treatments for malaria. This book, originally published in 1862, is Markham's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108046711
• ISBN13: 9781108046718
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 618 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"