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Author: Peter Kalm Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110803151X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 325
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Finnish-Swedish botanist Peter Kalm's influential observations about North America, translated into English and published in three volumes in 1770-1.
Author: Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806158573 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 625
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The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian’s expedition across the United States, from Boston almost to the headwaters of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains, and back. This new concise edition, the only modern condensed version of Maximilian’s full account, highlights the expedition’s most significant encounters and dramatic events. The German prince and his party arrived in Boston on July 4, 1832. He intended to explore “the natural face of North America,” observing and recording firsthand the flora, fauna, and especially the Native peoples of the interior. Accompanying him was the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, who would document the journey with sketches and watercolors. Together, the group traveled across the eastern United States and up the Missouri River into present-day Montana, spending the winter of 1833–34 at Fort Clark, an important fur-trading post near the Mandan and Hidatsa villages in what is now North Dakota. The expedition returned downriver to St. Louis the following spring, having spent more than a year in the Upper Missouri frontier wilderness. The two explorers experienced the American frontier just before its transformation by settlers, miners, and industry. Featuring nearly fifty color and black-and-white illustrations—including several of Karl Bodmer’s best landscapes and portraits—this succinct record of their expedition invites new audiences to experience an enthralling journey across the early American West.
Author: Pehr Kalm Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781391769219 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 430
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Excerpt from Travels Into North America, Vol. 1: Containing Its Natural History, and a Circumstantial Account of Its Plantations and Agriculture in General, With the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country AN encourager of this work propofed it as an improvement to the tranflation of Kalm's travels, to add in the margin the paging of the original, as by this means recourfe would be had eafily to the quotati ons made by Dr. Limm'm. We would very readily have complied with this deficie ratum, had we had the Swedg'fb edition of this work at hand, or had the work not been too far advanced at the time we got this kind hint: however this will be remedied by a copious index, which will certainly appear at the end of the whole work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.