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100 1 _aOsbeck, Pehr,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA Voyage to China and the East Indies :
_bTogether with a Voyage to Suratte, and an Account of the Chinese Husbandry, to Which Are Added, a Faunula and Flora Sinensis.
_nVolume 2 /
_cPehr Osbeck, Olof Torén, Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Translated by Johann Reinhold Forster.
246 3 _aA Voyage to China & the East Indies
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1771.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (408 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Maritime Exploration
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aA 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 2 contains the conclusion of Osbeck's account, the pieces by Torén and Ekeberg, and a catalogue of animals and plants native to China.
700 1 _aTorén, Olof,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aEkeberg, Carl Gustaf,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aForster, Johann Reinhold,
_etranslator.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108060325
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pMaritime Exploration.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139583718
999 _c515303
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