The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave

The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World

Toby Musgrave

386 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the ...

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