The African correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767-1820. Volume III, 1804-1820 / [edited by] Neil Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820, author.

Contributor:

Chambers, Neil, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820--Correspondence.

Banks, Joseph.

Natural history--Africa--History--Sources.

Natural history.

Naturalists--Great Britain--Correspondence.

Naturalists.

Scientists--Great Britain--Correspondence.

Scientists.

Africa--Discovery and exploration--British.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2024

Biography/History:

Neil Chambers edits the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, thus far publishing two major series, The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks (2007) in 6 volumes and The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks (2008-14) in 8 volumes. He is executive director of the Sir Joseph Banks Archive Project, based at Nottingham Trent University. He has written on Banks and world of collecting in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 2014 he curated a major exhibition of Endeavour voyage objects held in Lincoln, which was followed in 2016 by an essay volume with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough that was shortlisted for the Berger Prize.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed June 11, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: AFRICAN CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS, 1767 1820.

ISBN:

9781003409830

1003409830

9781000965957

1000965953

9781000965940

1000965945

Publisher Number:

40032356409

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.