The multifarious Mr. Banks : from Botany Bay to Kew, the natural historian who shaped the world / / Toby Musgrave [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Musgrave Toby
• Pubblicazione: New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (411 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 508.092
• Soggetto topico: Botany - History; Natural history; Explorers - Great Britain; Naturalists - Great Britain; Enlightenment - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Biographies.
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2020.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Banks Family and the Young Joseph -- CHAPTER 2 Newfoundland and Labrador -- CHAPTER 3 HMS Endeavour -- CHAPTER 4 The Hero and the Egotist -- CHAPTER 5 To Iceland: The Independent Explorer -- CHAPTER 6 The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- CHAPTER 7 The Father of Australia -- CHAPTER 8 The Scientist-Enabler -- CHAPTER 9 The Last Two Decades -- A Note on Banks’s Journals & Correspondence -- A Note on Banks’s Date of Birth -- Endnotes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the 'father of Australia,' and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Joseph Banks was integral to the English Enlightenment. Yet he has not received the recognition that his multifarious achievements deserve. This volume reveals the true extent of Banks's contributions to science and Britain.
• Titolo autorizzato: The multifarious Mr. Banks
• ISBN: 0-300-25213-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794155003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Yale scholarship online.