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Travels into North America - Containing its Natural History, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country (Paperback)
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Travels into North America - Containing its Natural History, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History, Volume 1
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Peter Kalm (1716-79) was a Finnish-Swedish botanist who travelled
extensively to observe the natural world in Sweden, Finland, Russia
and Ukraine, and became a professor of 'oeconomie' - the economic
application of subjects such as mineralogy, botany, zoology and
chemistry - at the university of Turku. Between 1747 and 1751 he
set out on a journey through eastern North America to gather
specimens, especially from regions with a similar climate to
Sweden. Because Kalm travelled though the area when much of it was
still unknown to Europeans, this work has some of the first
recorded accounts of places such as Niagara Falls. Kalm played an
important part in forging scientific links between Sweden, England
and North America. This three-volume work details his travels, and
was first published in English in 1770-1. Volume 1 covers Kalm's
Atlantic crossing, and describes the plant and animal life of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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