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Peter Kalm's travels in North America : the America of 1750 : the English version of 1770
Resa til Norra America. English
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- revised from the original Swedish and edited by Adolph B. Benson (late Professor of German and Scandinavian in Yale University) ; with a translation of new material from Kalm's diary notes
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- English
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- Dover edition
- New York : Dover Publications, 1966
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- 2 volumes (xvii, 797 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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- ocm01175619, ocm01175619
- Originally published: Wilson-Erickson, 1937.
- Includes only those portions of the original work dealing with the United States and Canada. "The hitherto untranslated portion ... has been done into English by Miss Edith M.L. Carlborg ... and the present editor. The remainder ... is based on Forster's translation"--page xv.
- Includes bibliographical references ("A bibliography of Peter Kalm's writings on America": volume 2, pages 770-776) and index.
- Introduction -- Peter Kalm's travelogue on America, as first published -- Supplementary diary -- Extracts from the manuscript continuation of Kalm's travels in America -- Description of Niagara Falls -- Addenda to diary ; History of the Delaware Swedes -- Meteorological observations