Swedish Naturalist Peter Kalm's 18th Century North American Journey
Swedish Academy scholar Peter Kalm and gardener Lars Jungstrom traveled to the American colonies starting October 1747 to study flora and fauna and seek seed material. They spent years in Philadelphia and other sites, meeting Benjamin Franklin who aided their botanical quest amid explorations and shipboard perils.
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Peter Kalm Travels in North America Revised Edition
Yale historian Adolph Benson edits the most complete English edition of Peter Kalm's Travels in North America. The two volume work, published by Wilson Erickson, covers mushrooms, dishes, shrubs, lumber, herbs, diseases, minerals, geography, history, slavery and wages with annotations and indexing.
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Oysters months and social customs noted in curious world
Kalm catalogues oyster season by months containing r and recalls Philadelphia street etiquette assigning the outside path to women. He describes a poverty driven widow’s nightgown marriage rite and notes locusts moths and bedbugs with dry detail. He warns bullfrogs kill and eat ducklings and offer combs of meat again.
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Exercises in movement and colonial observations in 18th century studies
The text describes a back lying exercise from McGovern's Daily Dozen focusing on circular arm and leg motions. It then shifts to historical notes about poison myths among North American Negroes, Kalm’s accounts of Indigenous people, French Canadian women in Montreal and Quebec, and Niagara Falls descriptions, concluding with a Kansas City Star note about state secretaries of state.
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