A Voyage to China and the East Indies by Pehr Osbeck, Olof To... - 9781108060318

A Voyage to China and the East IndiesTogether with a Voyage to Suratte, and an Account of the Chinese Husbandry, to Which Are Added, a Faunula and Flora Sinensis\nAuthor(s): Pehr Osbeck, Olof Torn, Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Johann Reinhold Forster\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108060318, 978-1108060318\nSynopsis\nA student of Carl Linnaeus, Pehr Osbeck [tel] was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and chaplain. He travelled to Asia in 17502 and brought back some six hundred specimens that were included in Linnaeus' Species Plantarum [tel]. 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 [tel]. This two-volume work also includes letters to Linnaeus by another pupil, Olof Torn [tel], who also travelled to the East in the early 1750s, as well as a paper on Chinese husbandry by Carl Gustaf Ekeberg.