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Endeavouring Banks: Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768 - 1771
Neil Chambers
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Description for Endeavouring Banks: Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768 - 1771
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When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-71, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. Banks and his team returned from the voyage with unprecedented collections of artefacts and specimens of stunning birds, fish and other animals as well as thousands of plants, most seen for the first time in Europe. They produced, too, remarkable landscape and figure drawings of the peoples encountered on the voyage along with detailed journals and descriptions of the places visited, which, with the first detailed maps ... Read more
When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-71, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. Banks and his team returned from the voyage with unprecedented collections of artefacts and specimens of stunning birds, fish and other animals as well as thousands of plants, most seen for the first time in Europe. They produced, too, remarkable landscape and figure drawings of the peoples encountered on the voyage along with detailed journals and descriptions of the places visited, which, with the first detailed maps ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907372902
SKU
V9781907372902
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Neil Chambers
An acknowledged expert on the history of the voyage and the life of Joseph Banks Renowned naturalist and broadcaster, and a Cook and Banks expert in his own right Head of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Reviews for Endeavouring Banks: Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768 - 1771
Beautifully presented and detailed ... an authoritative and high-quality book which will be enjoyed by many readers.
Journal of Historical Geography
In this fascinating publication, specimens collected by naturalist Joseph Banks on his HMS Endeavour voyage, along with scientific drawings, maps of the ship, and profiles of his travelling companions, including James Cook, give insight into what it ... Read more
Journal of Historical Geography
In this fascinating publication, specimens collected by naturalist Joseph Banks on his HMS Endeavour voyage, along with scientific drawings, maps of the ship, and profiles of his travelling companions, including James Cook, give insight into what it ... Read more