Letters From India: Describing A Journey In The British Dominions Of India Volume Vol. 2nd

About the Book:-It was undertaken by order of the French government. The book is in two volumes in giving an English translation of the author’s letters to his family and friends, during his travels in India, we shall endeavour to supply a great defect in the French edition of this work, by stating a few particulars of the life of this interesting young victim to science, prior to his departure for those shores where he was doomed to find a premature grave. At a very early age, he evinced a strong attachment to natural history, which was probably strengthened by his acquaintance with the late Baron Olivier. His intimacy with the Tracy family, and especially with Victor de Tracy, for many years past one of the most distinguished members of the French legislature, made him an ideologist, though the natural bent of his mind led him rather to investigate facts than to unravel the perplexities of metaphysics. And it is a singular contradiction, that at the very time he was pursuing his researches in natural science, doubting everything until proved by the test of his senses, he indulged, when yielding to the confidence of friendship, in all the hypothetic ratiocination of the Tracy philosophy. This exercise of his mind, and the opinions he imbibed from it, probably induced him, soon after he left school, to become a member of one of those societies, so numerous in France, where metaphysical politics are debated, and lead to wild and impracticable theories which mar every generous exertion for rational improvement. It was accompanied with a map of India and a portrait of the author. About the Author:- Victor Jacquemont (1801 – 1832) was a French botanist and geologist known for his travels in India. He studied medicine and later took an interest in botany. His early travels took him around Europe. He was lightly built and capable of living on a very frugal diet. After being invited by the Jardin des Plantes to collect plant and animal specimens from a country of his choice for 240 pounds a year, he traveled to India leaving Brest in August 1828. He arrived at Calcutta on 5th May 1829. He went to Delhi on 5th March 1830 and went onwards towards the western Himalayas. He visited Amber in Rajputana, met with the Sikh Emperor Ranjit Singh at his capital of Lahore, and visited the kingdom of Ladakh in the Himalaya. He also visited Bardhaman (Burdwan) in Bengal in November 1829. He died of cholera in Bombay on 7th December 1832. The standard author abbreviation Jacquem is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. The Title 'Letters From India: Describing A Journey In The British Dominions Of India written/authored/edited by Victor Jacquemont', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121248945 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 386 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:- Vol. 2nd