Voyagers
James Paradis, 18 June 1981
Sir Joseph Banks
by Charles Lyte.
David and Charles, 248 pp., £10.50, October 1980,0 7153 7884 8 Show More
by Charles Lyte.
David and Charles, 248 pp., £10.50, October 1980,
The Heyday of Natural History: 1820-1870
by Lynn Barber.
Cape, 320 pp., £9.50, October 1980,9780224014489 Show More
by Lynn Barber.
Cape, 320 pp., £9.50, October 1980,
A Vision of Eden
by Marianne North.
Webb and Bower, 240 pp., £8.95, October 1980,0 906671 18 3 Show More
by Marianne North.
Webb and Bower, 240 pp., £8.95, October 1980,
“... 1788 around Linnaeus’s remarkable botanical collection, which was purchased for £1000 by James Edward Smith in 1783 and brought to London over the protest of all Swedish science. By the beginning of the Victorian era, the amateur tradition of the country naturalist and nature-appreciator – a tradition given great dignity and prestige by Gilbert White ... ”