Gebundenes Buch

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767-1820

Volume III 1804-1820

Herausgeber: Chambers, Neil

Beschreibung

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767â 1820.

Autor

Neil Chambers edits the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, thus far publishing two major series, The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks (2007) in 6 volumes and The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks (2008-14) in 8 volumes. He is executive director of the Sir Joseph Banks Archive Project, based at Nottingham Trent University. He has written on Banks and world of collecting in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 2014 he curated a major exhibition of Endeavour voyage objects held in Lincoln, which was followed in 2016 by an essay volume with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough that was shortlisted for the Berger Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 550
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 960g
• ISBN-13: 9781032530369
• ISBN-10: 1032530367
• Artikelnr.: 68472665