Joseph Banks, a life
By: Patrick O'Brian.
Publisher: C. Harvill
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820; Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Botanists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Description: This biography of Sir Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia's founding fathers, draws on much hitherto unpublished material. He emerges here as a warm-hearted enthusiast whose legacy survives in the development of the Australian continent.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 318-321.
Includes index.