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“Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations, on the countries which it visited, by Clarke Abel” (Publication, 1818)

Year

1818

Text

Brown, Robert. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations, on the countries which it visited, by Clarke Abel. Illustrated by maps and other engravings. (London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818).
Appendix : Characters and descriptions of three new species of plants found in China by Clarke Abel, selected from a small collection of specimens, the only part of his herbarium that escaped the wreck of the Alceste.
[Bericht über die Gesandtschaft von William Pitt Amherst. Die botanische und mineralogische Sammlung von Clarke Abel gehen auf dem Weg nach England bei Schiffuntergang verloren, er hat nur noch eine kleine Sammlung von Pflanzen].
https://archive.org/details/narrativeajourn00abelgoog/page/n12. (Abel5)

Type

Publication

Contributors (2)

Abel, Clarke  (1780-1826 Cawnpore, Indien) : Englischer Arzt, Naturalist

Brown, Robert  (Montrose, Schottland 1773-1858‏ London) : Botaniker

Mentioned People (1)

Amherst, William Pitt  (Bath 1773-1857 Knole House bei Sevenoaks) : Diplomat, Generalgouverneur von Bengalen

Subjects

Travel and Legation Accounts

Cited by (1)

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