Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, foerröttad åren 1770-1779

Linnaeus's greatest disciple and successor, Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1838) made major contributions to the botany of South Africa and Japan as a result of his travels described in this book. The Smithsonian Libraries holds many of his specifically botanical publications, as well as an English translation of this work (3rd ed., 1795-1796; in the Russell E. Train Africana collection). Thunberg's narrative covers his travels in southern Europe, the Cape of Good Hope, the South African interior, Java, Japan, and Ceylon, and holds great ethnographical interest.