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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Travels into North America, Volume 1 (of 3)
Pehr Kalm and Johann Reinhold Forster
348 pages~6 hr 56 min read12 chapters$4.99
A Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus toured colonial America to study its plants and report on its life. Pehr Kalm's first volume records Pennsylvania and its surroundings with a scientist's curiosity about everything from crops to customs. A valuable eyewitness to the eighteenth-century colonies. See early America through a botanist's eyes.
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Inside this book
12 chapters
- 1TRAVELS INTO NORTH AMERICA; CONTAINING Its Natural History, and A circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general,
- 2WITH THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL AND COMMERCIAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY, The MANNERS of the INHABITANTS, and several curious and IMPORTANT REMARKS on various Subjects.
- 3PREFACE.
- 4PETER KALM’s TRAVELS.
- 5The Value of the Goods annually shipped from England to Pensylvania.
- 6ADVERTISEMENT.
- 7Colophon
- 8Availability
- 9Metadata
- 10Encoding
- 11Revision History
- 12Corrections
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