Joseph Banks, A Life

FLORA & FAUNA General Biography

 This now elusive first edition, written by the author of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist, explorer, President of the Royal Society for more than forty years, a significant figure in scientific circles of the late eighteenth early nineteenth centuries. This masterly biography, which makes full use of Banks’s letters and journals.

• 328 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Bibliography: p. 318-321.

 First Edition. #310824 (Book plate on fep)

• Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
• Naturalists — Great Britain — Biography
• Botanists — Great Britain — Biography
• Explorers — Great Britain — Biography