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Anders Sparrman, b.1748, the son of a country rector in Uppsala, studies medicine and becomes an apostle of the botanist Carl Linnaeus. He sails as a ship's doctor to China. In 1772 becomes tutor to the children of the Swedish Resident in Cape Town, from there joins Cook's second voyage to Antarctica and Tahiti as assistant to the German botanists Johann and Georg Forster. He travels to the African interior with his guide, Daniel Immelman and later writes "A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope", towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world: But chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772 to 1776. In Stockolm, he is appointed keeper of natural historical collections but quarrels with his colleagues. He then travels to Senegal, witnesses the cruelty of slavery. Anders testifies for abolitionists in London. In Stockholm he is dismissed from his post at the Academy and works as a doctor among the poor. He falls in love with his housemaid, Lotta Fries. They have a daughter. Sparrman died in 1820.
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`Achieves something quietly innovative and original ... a subtle, breathtaking achievement. Make no mistake, this is a great European novel' --The Times
'It's a breathtaking endeavour - as a historical chronicle, the novel can't be faulted' --Independent
`The novel's deep wisdom questions what is important in life ... Wästberg has rescued a beguiling soul from oblivion' --Sunday Telegraph
`Wästberg writes with raw feeling and a sense of injustice ... fascinating and absorbing to read' --Herald
'Wästberg brings his novelist's skills to recreate Sparrman's world in prose that is poetic, but spare and compelling'
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'It's a breathtaking endeavour - as a historical chronicle, the novel can't be faulted' --Independent
`The novel's deep wisdom questions what is important in life ... Wästberg has rescued a beguiling soul from oblivion' --Sunday Telegraph
`Wästberg writes with raw feeling and a sense of injustice ... fascinating and absorbing to read' --Herald
'Wästberg brings his novelist's skills to recreate Sparrman's world in prose that is poetic, but spare and compelling'
--Times Literary Supplement
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