CONTENTS: The Linnaeus Apostles
Global Science & Adventure, 8 Volumes
The publication of a major international series of eight volumes - in all 11 books and 5,000 pages - has been in preparation since the beginning of this century under the overall title of The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure. All the accounts of the apostles' journeys to every continent will be published here for the first time in English; those of the apostles who left no travel journals are described through their correspondence or other sources. In the introductory and concluding volumes world experts in various subject fields will provide accounts of the 18th century, of Linnaeus, of travelling and the hardships of field work, together with biographies and a comprehensive new bibliography of the publications of the apostles.
Volume One: INTRODUCTION. Authors: Professor Gunnar Broberg, Taxidermist Ragnar Edberg, Professor Ulla Ehrensvärd, MA. Anders Ericsson, Professor emeritus Gunnar Eriksson, PhD. Karl Grandin, Textile historian Viveka Hansen, Professor emeritus Staffan Helmfrid, Professor Carl Linnaeus, Naturalist Henry Smeathman, Docent Per Sörbom and Professor Sverker Sörlin.
Volume Two: EUROPE - ARCTIC - ASIA. Authors/Apostles: Anton Rolandsson Martin and Johan Peter Falck.
Volume Three: EUROPE - NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA. Authors/Apostles: Pehr Kalm, Pehr Löfling and Daniel Rolander.
Volume Four: EUROPE - MIDDLE EAST - NORTH EAST & WEST AFRICA. Authors/Apostles: Göran Rothman, Fredrik Hasselquist, Pehr Forsskål, Andreas Berlin and Adam Afzelius
Volume Five: SOUTHERN AFRICA - OCEANIA - ANTARCTICA - SOUTH AMERICA. Authors/Apostles: Anders Sparrman.
Volume Six: EUROPE - SOUTHERN AFRICA - EAST-, SOUTHERN- & SOUTHEAST ASIA. Authors/Apostles: Carl Peter Thunberg.
Volume Seven: EUROPE - SOUTHERN AFRICA - OCEANIA - SOUTH AMERICA - EAST-, SOUTHERN- & SOUTHEAST ASIA. Authors/Apostles: Pehr Osbeck, Olof Torén, Carl Fredrik Adler, Christopher Tärnström and Daniel Solander.
Volume Eight: ENCYCLOPÆDIA. Authors: The Editors, Professor emeritus Bertil Nordenstam and Linnaeus bibliophile Torbjörn Lindell.
ISBN: 978-1-904145-26-4 (for complete set of eight volumes, eleven books)
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VOLUME EIGHT
BACKGROUND
Even if the apostles are the principal authors on the strength of their journals and their accounts of experiences of now vanished landscapes and cultures, the aim of the editors has also been to convey up-to-date knowledge about the 18th century and explanatory facts concerning the apostles. In Volume One and Eight we have gathered information that is essential for an understanding of the 18th-century world. In the introductory volume leading writers in various subject fields have produced independent chapters that collectively introduce the reader under three topical headings - THE 18TH CENTURY, SEEKERS of TRUTH AND THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS - to the actual world in which the apostles lived or that they confronted during their journeys. Each chapter is self-contained and the information presented in it may in some cases be perceived as contradictory, but that is a decision taken by the editors in order to make things clear but also as a reminder that knowledge is and remains subject to change and may be interpreted over time in different ways. The concluding volume entitled ENCYCLOPÆDIA contains factual information presented in reference form under the following three headings: BIOGRAPHIES, BIBLIOGRAPHY and INDEX: Volumes One to Eight. It is in these two volumes that general facts and search facilities relating to all the volumes are to be found.
CONTENTS: VOLUME EIGHT
The concluding volume entitled ENCYCLOPÆDIA contains factual information presented in reference form (text, maps) under the following three headings: BIOGRAPHIES, BIBLIOGRAPHY and INDEX: Volumes One to Eight. It is in Volume Eight that general facts and search facilities relating to all the volumes are to be found.
TITLE: THE LINNAEUS APOSTLES - GLOBAL SCIENCE & ADVENTURE. ENCYCLOPÆDIA. VOLUME EIGHT.
SUBTITLE 1: BIOGRAPHIES. Biographical fact files of each apostle written by the Editors and professor emeritus Bertil Nordenstam.
SUBTITLE 2: BIBLIOGRAPHY. A complete bibliography written by the Linnaeus bibliophile Torbjörn Lindell, of all published material - by the apostles and about them.
SUBTITLE 3: INDEX. Volumes One to Eight.
LANGUAGE: English. (In INDEX; Scientific names in Latin).
ISBN: 978-1-904145-25-7
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Lars Hansen
FACT FILES
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VOLUME EIGHT
EUROPE, THE ARCTIC & ASIA 
