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IN describing his journeys in Sikkim. Elwes writes that Claude White's “Sikkim and Bhutan” forms a fitting supplement to Hooker's “Himalayan Journals”. A perusal of parts of these memoirs, nearly a third of which are devoted to India and journeys in Sikkim and round Dar-jeeling, will readily show to the initiated that Elwes's reminiscences and experiences cover a very valuable period of years between the day of Hooker and that of White in this region. Before treating of this aspect a few general remarks will be necessary on this remarkable and fascinating book. It is difficult to recall any book of quite its type published during the last, perhaps, forty years. If the knowledgeable reader is left with one regret it will probably be that Elwes did not commence the publication of the memoirs during his lifetime, and give them to us in two or three volumes.
Memoirs of Travel, Sport and Natural History.
Henry John Elwes. Edward G. Hawke. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, and a Chapter on Gardening by E. A. Bowles. Pp. 317 + 18 plates. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1930.) 21s. net.
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STEBBING, E. Memoirs of Travel, Sport and Natural History . Nature 126, 158–160 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126158a0
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