Book ID: 78076
Koerner, Lisbet
Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. 1999. VII, 297 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Recounts the great and bizarre economic projects of Linnaeus to'teach' tea, saffron and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and todomesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals.Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within theborders of his nation by growing colonial cash crops in the North.