TRAVELS INTO NORTH AMERICA: VOLUME 3 by Peter Kalm, John Reinhold Forster (Trans) ( 9781139056212 )

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Title:

TRAVELS INTO NORTH AMERICA: VOLUME 3
CONTAINING ITS NATURAL HISTORY, WITH THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL AND COMMERCIAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY

By:

Peter Kalm, John Reinhold Forster (Trans)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1139056212

ISBN 13:

9781139056212

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 May, 2013

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - North American History

Translated from:

Swedish

Description:

Finnish-Swedish botanist Peter Kalm's influential observations about North America, translated into English and published in three volumes in 1770-1.

Synopsis:

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 3 focuses on Kalm's observations of plants and animals in Canada, especially around the French-speaking settlements.

Illustrations:

1 map

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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Non-returnable

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