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
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108060315
ISBN-13
9781108060318
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 29th, 2013
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
586 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.50 x 3.10 cms
Ksh 7,750.00
Manufactured on Demand
0 in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
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, however, is given over entirely to Osbeck's narrative.
Get A Voyage to China and the East Indies by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Cambridge University Press and it has pages.
