A Voyage to China and the East Indies - Together with a Voyage to Suratte, and an Account of the Chinese Husbandry, to Which Are Added, a Faunula and Flora Sinensis (Paperback)

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 Toren (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 2 contains the conclusion of Osbeck's account, the pieces by Toren and Ekeberg, and a catalogue of animals and plants native to China.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration, Volume 2
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	July 2013
Authors:	Pehr, Osbeck, • Olof Toren • Carl Gustaf Ekeberg
Translators:	Johann Reinhold Forster
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-06032-5
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	German
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LSN:	1-108-06032-3
Barcode:	9781108060325

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