This edition makes available once again Thunberg's extraordinary
writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction
and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of
Linnaeus - of the great fathers of modern science - spent eighteen
fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in
1775-1776, and this is his story. Thunberg studied at Uppsala
University in Sweden where he was a favourite student of the great
Linnaeus, father of modern scientific classification. He determined
to travel the world and enlisted as a physician with the Dutch East
India Company. He arrived in Japan in the summer of 1775 and stayed
for eighteen months. He observed Japan widely, and travelled to Edo
(modern Tokyo) where he became friends with the shogun's private
physician, Katsuragawa Hoshu, a fine Scholar and a notorious rake.
They maintained a correspondence even after Thunberg had returned
to his homeland. Thunberg's 'Travels' appeared in English in 1795
and until now has never been reprinted. Fully annotated and
introduced by Timon Screech.
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