Jerry Borrowman

Joseph Banks

Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission

A Distant Prayer

"The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks" from Joseph Banks. English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural (1743 - 1820).

The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks

A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn, Called by Farmers the Blight, the Mildew, and the Rust

"Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook. He was familiar with most natural philosophers in Britain and across Europe, many of whom consulted his unrivalled collections of Pacific natural history and ethnology, and who shared specimens and information with him regarding the region. Banks also advised the British government and commercial enterprise in the development of successive ventures to India, the Far East and the Pacific. His career demonstrates how a private individual could influence global exploration in the Georgian era. Banks's correspondence is one of the great primary sources for studying the Pacific region during this important period of exploration and colonial expansion. His Indian and Pacific correspondence has not previously been published in a fully edited thematic series. This transcribed edition of over 2000 letters uses material from archives around the world. Together with The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1765-1820, this edition establishes Pickering & Chatto as the field leader in the publication of Joseph Banks's edited papers and ensures that editorial standards are applied consistently across his published papers. It will be important for scholars researching the History of Science, Empire Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies and Travel Literature." --Book Jacket.

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820: Letters 1768-1782

Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks

Banks travelled as a natural historian on the Endeavour with Captain James Cook. The voyage solved the problem of the nature of New Zealand, and also revealed the whole eastern coast of Australia. Banks kept this journal in which he vividly recorded things in great detail, whether he was in Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, or the East Indies, in danger of death or merely enjoying himself hugely --through three most eventful years of discovery.

"Mr. B's circuit round Otaheite."

Contains full text of Bank's journal for the period during which the Endeavour was in New Zealand waters, together with his Account of New Zealand.

From His Journal

Sir Joseph Banks in New Zealand

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was a British botanist and one of the most influential scientific patrons of the eighteenth century. After inheriting a fortune on the death of his father in 1761, Banks devoted his life to studying natural history. His fame following his participation in Captain Cook's epic voyage on the Endeavour between 1768 and 1771 led to his election as President of the Royal Society in 1778, a post which he then held until his death. This volume, first published in 1896, contains Banks' account of the voyage of the Endeavour across the Pacific Ocean. Edited by the great botanist Sir Joseph Hooker, it describes in fascinating detail the peoples, cultures and wildlife Banks encountered in Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia. Banks' aptitude as a natural historian and the crucial role he played in cataloguing and illustrating exotic wildlife during the expedition are emphasised in the work.

During Captain Cook's First Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra Del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Etc.

Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B., P.R.S.

James Anderson

On the Subject of Cochineal Insects, Discovered at Madras

A Fourteenth Letter to Sir Joseph Banks ...

Banks

Diary of voyage on board Niger, 1766, scientific manuscripts, and detailed account of his biological collections.

Joseph Banks

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