Spent four months studying
natural history and social history in the Canton region of China.
He returned to Sweden with a number of large collections following
his trip from 1750 to 1752. The collections are now in England
and Sweden.
BORN
1723, Hålanda parish, Västergötland,
Sweden.
EDUCATION
Uppsala university, Sweden.
TRAVEL DIARY
His accounts of his travels
were published in three languages between 1757 - 1771. Dagbok
öfwer en ostindisk Resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752, Stockholm
1757.
DIED
1805, (Hasslövs churchyard)
Halland, Sweden.
The map provides an overview of the places each
Apostle described in, for example, his travel diary, books or letters.
Modern geographical names are used. For further information see
the collected works, The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure.
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