Travels in Peru and India: While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.
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Follow a Victorian naturalist's obsessive quest across South America to find a miraculous plant and transport it to colonial India, a thrilling expedition that reads like adventure fiction but shaped global medicine and empire. Markham captures both the scientific wonder and the moral complexity of scientific imperialism.
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Travels in Peru and India: While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. is an ebook by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir (1830–1916). This edition runs to roughly 576 pages, about 11.5 hours of reading at a typical pace.
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