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A Voyage to China and the East Indies 2 Volume Set - Pehr Osbeck, Olof Torén, Carl Gustaf Ekeberg

A Voyage to China and the East Indies 2 Volume Set

Together with a Voyage to Suratte, and an Account of the Chinese Husbandry, to Which Are Added, a Faunula and Flora Sinensis
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856 Seiten
2013
Cambridge University Press
978-1-108-06033-2 (ISBN)
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This 1771 two-volume work, edited and translated into English by Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–98), contains important writings by Swedish natural historians who travelled to Asia in the 1750s as pupils and followers of Carl Linnaeus. These pieces remain of interest to historical geographers as well as naturalists.
A student of Carl Linnaeus, Pehr Osbeck (1723–1805) was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and chaplain. He travelled to Asia in 1750–2 and brought back some six hundred specimens that were included in Linnaeus' Species plantarum (1753). His account of his voyage was published in Swedish in 1757, in German in 1765, and here in English in 1771, edited and translated by Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–98). This two-volume work also includes letters to Linnaeus by another pupil, Olof Torén (1718–53), who also travelled to the East in the early 1750s, as well as a paper on Chinese husbandry by Carl Gustaf Ekeberg (1716–84). Ekeberg made ten trips to China and India between 1742 and 1778, becoming a captain in the Swedish East India Company. He too brought back numerous specimens for Linnaeus. Volume 1 is given over to Osbeck's narrative, while Volume 2 includes a catalogue of animals and plants native to China.

Volume 1: Dedication; Editor's preface; Preface of Mr Osbeck; Author's preface; Osbeck's voyage, Part I. Volume 2: Osbeck's voyage, Part II.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.9.2013
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
Übersetzer Johann Reinhold Forster
Zusatzinfo 8 Plates, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 142 x 217 mm
Gewicht 950 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-06033-1 / 1108060331
ISBN-13 978-1-108-06033-2 / 9781108060332
Zustand Neuware
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