Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

by Neil Chambers

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. They returned with unprecedented collections of artifacts and specimens of stunning birds, fish, and other animals, as well as thousands of plants, most seen for the first time in Europe. They produced, too, remarkable landscape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295998113
• ISBN13: 9780295998114
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 11.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher