In the history of exploration, Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén as Swedish civil engineer, botanist and explorer (1855–1926).
Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén was born in 1855. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
Nineteenth-century exploration turned inland - Africa, Asia and Australia - and was entangled from the start with empire, missions and the geographical societies that funded it.
He is recorded as botanist, cartographer and scientific explorer.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén died in 1926, aged 71. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as botanist, cartographer and scientific explorer
