The Complete Catalogue provides an overview and insides stories of this monumental series of eight volumes – comprising in all eleven books and over 5,500 pages – which has been in preparation since the late 1990s under the overall title of 'The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure'.
This is the Complete Catalogue of the greatest research and publishing project ever on the chosen few who came to be known as the Linnaeus Apostles. During the 18th century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) was to inspire seventeen of his pupils to travel to distant corners of the world to document local nature and culture. They travelled across land and sea on their own or as members of expeditions, covering every continent between the years 1745 and 1799.
Although Linnaeus and some of his apostles are known internationally, several of the apostles are relatively unfamiliar, despite their global pioneering work in the service of science and mankind. The publication of their journals – several of them now made available for the very first time – will for a long time to come stimulate fresh research, new thinking and not least provide exciting reading about cultures, landscapes and people of a bygone era.
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