Title The multifarious Mr. Banks : from Botany Bay to Kew, the natural historian who shaped the world / Toby Musgrave.

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Description	1 online resource (411 pages) : illustrations
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Banks family and young Joseph -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- HMS Endeavour -- Hero and the egotist -- To Iceland : the independent explorer -- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- Father of Australia -- Scientist-enabler -- Last two decades.
Summary	A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment.
Access	Concurrent user level: 1 user
Subject	Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820.
	Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820.
	Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Naturalists.
	Great Britain.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Botanists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Botanists.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Musgrave, Toby. Multifarious Mr. Banks : From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2020 9780300223835 (OCoLC)1121609011
ISBN	0300252137 (electronic book)
	9780300252132 (electronic book)
	9780300223835 (hardcover)