Nature's Investigator: The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805

by Robert Brown and Robert Brown

Robert Brown was one of the first professional botanists to visit Australia. He accompanied Flinders on his official circumnavigation of Australia in the ship Investigator, and later collected extensively in New South Wales and Tasmania. The result was published, in part in his Prodromus (1810), and in other shorter works, particularly on Proteaceae.

Brown came to be recognized as the leading British botanist of his day. His extensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0642568170
• ISBN13: 9780642568175
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
• Length: 678 Pages