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The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767-1820: Volume III 1804-1820

Neil Chambers

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Dec 26th, 2025
  • Pages: 542
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 1.11in - 1.68lb
  • EAN: 9781032530376
  • Categories: Expeditions & DiscoveriesModern - 18th CenturyAfrica - General

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.