African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 17671820 - Volume III 18041820

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 1767-1820.

List of contents

Timeline 1804–1820 / The Letters 1804–1820 / Calendar of Correspondence / Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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 1767–1820.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Chambers
• Assisted by: Neil Chambers (Editor), Chambers Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032530369
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253036-9
• No. of pages: 542
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, c 1800 to c 1900, Geographical discovery & exploration, maritime history, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Geographical discovery and exploration, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850