
Skuncke, Marie-Christine. Carl Peter Thunberg. Botanist and Physician. Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century. 1st. Ed. Pub. Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. 2014
pp.376 with col. & b/w. photos. & illus. Small 4to. Minor bump to top edge of front board o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw., with gently sunned spine.
Marie-Christine Skuncke reconstructs Thunberg's scientific career by exploring exchanges within the networks which he built in Europe, the Dutch colonies, and Tokugawa Japan. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Carl Peter Thunberg: Botanist and Physician is a study of social practices in natural history.
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