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Title: THE LIFE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, WITH SOME NOTICES OF HIS FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES
By: Edward Smith
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1108031129
ISBN 13: 9781108031127
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION
Pub. date: 11 May, 2011
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
Pages: 402
Description: This 1911 biography reveals the extraordinary influence of the wealthy botanist Banks on eighteenth-century science, exploration and society.
Synopsis: Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), botanist and patron of science, was a pivotal figure in eighteenth-century intellectual circles. He travelled around the world with Captain Cook as naturalist on the Endeavour (1768-1771), exploring first Tahiti, then Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, and contributed GBP10,000 of his personal wealth to help finance the expedition. He became President of the Royal Society and scientific adviser to the Royal Gardens at Kew, counting George III as a personal friend. He both helped plan the first penal colony in New South Wales, and bred Merino sheep to be farmed there. He promoted the geological mapping of England, Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia, and the transfer of breadfruit from the Pacific to the West Indies (the objective of the Bounty voyage that ended in mutiny). This 1911 study, based on extensive archival research, was the first detailed biography of this remarkable and influential man.
Illustrations: 11 b/w illus.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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