African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 17671820 - Volume I: 17671794

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

Introduction / Editorial Principles / Abbreviations and Sources / Timeline 1767–1794 / The Letters 1767–1794

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: 9781032530321
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253032-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, maritime history, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology