
The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks
Christina Harrison(Author)
Kew Publishing
Published on 1. October 2020
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-84246-715-2 (ISBN)
Description
Sir Joseph Banks was a true botanical adventurer and pioneer. Not only did he reveal the floral wonders of the South Seas, New Zealand and Australia to European eyes, but he set Kew Gardens on its path to becoming the world's foremost botanic garden, bringing in a wealth of rare and useful plants, which had far-reaching impact.
Banks was uniquely privileged and no-one before or since has had such influence in the sphere of botany. He helped to raise botanical science to new heights and brought many new beautiful plants to Britain, which we now take for granted in our gardens.
Here, his life in botany is told through some of the intriguing objects, books and plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - the place he held dear until his death in 1820.
Banks was uniquely privileged and no-one before or since has had such influence in the sphere of botany. He helped to raise botanical science to new heights and brought many new beautiful plants to Britain, which we now take for granted in our gardens.
Here, his life in botany is told through some of the intriguing objects, books and plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - the place he held dear until his death in 1820.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond, Surrey
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Royal Botanic Gardens
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
150 color plates, 20 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84246-715-2 (9781842467152)
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Person
Christina Harrison is editor of Kew magazine and has degrees in Plant Ecology and Garden History. She is author of Kew's Big Trees (Kew Publishing, 2019) and co-author of Bizarre Botany (Kew Publishing, 2016) and Treasured Trees (Kew Publishing, 2015), The Botanical Treasury (Andre Deutsch, 2016) and Remarkable Trees (Thames & Hudson, 2019).