The Journey Of Anders Sparrman

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Literary
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Author: Per Wästberg ISBN: 9781847082824
Publisher: Granta Publications Publication: April 1, 2010
Imprint: Granta Books Language: English
Author: Per Wästberg
ISBN: 9781847082824
Publisher: Granta Publications
Publication: April 1, 2010
Imprint: Granta Books
Language: English

'I have spent too long on plants and animals. Now it is time for human beings.'

This haunting novel is based on the life of Anders Sparrman, the eighteenth-century naturalist and disciple of the pioneering classifier Carl Linnaeus. Despite his humble beginnings, Sparrman joined Captain Cook on his second voyage to Antarctica and Tahiti and later made an unprecedented journey to South Africa. What he saw on these explorations made him a dedicated scientist and abolitionist, but it was not until he returned home to Sweden that a love affair dispelled the loneliness that had haunted him. In this magical, poetic novel, set between the end of the Enlightenment and the dawn of Romanticism, W�stberg's narrative combines intellectual precision with real emotional power.

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'I have spent too long on plants and animals. Now it is time for human beings.'

This haunting novel is based on the life of Anders Sparrman, the eighteenth-century naturalist and disciple of the pioneering classifier Carl Linnaeus. Despite his humble beginnings, Sparrman joined Captain Cook on his second voyage to Antarctica and Tahiti and later made an unprecedented journey to South Africa. What he saw on these explorations made him a dedicated scientist and abolitionist, but it was not until he returned home to Sweden that a love affair dispelled the loneliness that had haunted him. In this magical, poetic novel, set between the end of the Enlightenment and the dawn of Romanticism, W�stberg's narrative combines intellectual precision with real emotional power.

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