num_pages: 168
description: Eighteenth century botany, starring Cook, Banks, and Linnaeus, was sexy, dangerous, and big business, and Fara reveals the existence, barely concealed under the camouflage of noble enlightenment, of the more seedy drives to conquer, subdue and deflower in the name of the British Empire.
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: Icon Books Ltd