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The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World
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Author:
Toby Musgrave
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Date:
June 30, 2020
An in-depth life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment.
What The Reviewers Say
...aptly titled, consistently entertaining.
... [an] illuminating biography.
In order to cover Banks’s many subsequent occupations and interests, Musgrave abandons his chronological approach after the Iceland trip, proceeding instead thematically. This doesn’t altogether work, as many distracting cross-references in the text acknowledge. He nevertheless provides a full, clear-eyed and highly readable account of an engaging, if flawed, man who did indeed do much to shape the world..
