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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)
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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)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration, Volume 1
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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 1, however, is given over entirely to Osbeck's narrative.
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