Joseph Banks A Life

Name: Joseph Banks A Life
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ISBN: 9780226616285

ISBN-10: 0226616282

ISBN-13: 9780226616285

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Authors: Patrick O'Brian

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One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its finest. Published to rave reviews, it reveals Banks to be a man of enduring importance, and establishes itself as a classic of exploration. "It is in his description of that arduous three-year voyage [on the ship Endeavor] that Mr. O'Brian is at his most brilliant. . . . He makes us understand what life within this wooden world was like, with its 94 male souls, two dogs, a cat and a goat."--Linda Colley, New York Times "An absorbing, finely…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/8/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Patrick O'Brian is the author of twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series of novels.



Preface



Origins


Education


Botany



Newfoundland and Labrador



The Royal Society


Solander


the Endeavour Voyage



Tahiti and the Transit of Venus



New Zealand


Botany Bay and the Great Barrier Reef



Home Again


Resolution


Iceland



The Great Florilegium


Omai


Soho Square



President of the Royal Society


Marriage


the King and Kew


Botany Bay



HM's Sheep


Plant Collectors


Bligh and Bounty


Revolution in France



War


New South Wales


the Privy Council



Trouble in Sydney and Iceland


Declining Health


the End



His Will, and some Letters


Notes


Bibliography


Index