description: Sex, Botany and Empire When imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, the scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist, Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. But Enlightenment botany was fraught with sexual symbolism. And in Sweden and Britain, both imperial powers, Banks and Carl Linneaus ... Full description
language: English
title: Sex, Botany and Empire : The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
titlecomplete: Sex, Botany and Empire : The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
genres: Biography, Plants, Nature, Animals, Biology, Science, Nonfiction, 21st Century, History Of Science, History
ratings_count: 181
series: Icon Science
publisher: Gardners Books