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

Pehr Osbeck; Olof Torén; Carl Gustaf Ekeberg; Johann Reinhold Forster

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139583701

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.

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Dedication
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THE EDITOR's PREFACE
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PREFACE OF Mr. OSBECK
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PETER OSBECK'S VOYAGE to CHINA
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THE YEAR 1951
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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

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Dedication
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THE EDITOR's PREFACE
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PREFACE OF Mr. OSBECK
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PETER OSBECK'S VOYAGE to CHINA
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THE YEAR 1951
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Frontmatter pp i-ii

Dedication pp iii-vi

THE EDITOR's PREFACE pp vii-xii

PREFACE OF Mr. OSBECK pp xiii-xx

PETER OSBECK'S VOYAGE to CHINA pp 1-7

THE YEAR 1951 pp 8-422

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-vi

THE EDITOR's PREFACE
pp vii-xii

PREFACE OF Mr. OSBECK
pp xiii-xx

PETER OSBECK'S VOYAGE to CHINA
pp 1-7

THE YEAR 1951
pp 8-422