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Joseph Banks: a life by Patrick O'Brian is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Joseph Banks: a life about?
This biography of Sir Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia's founding fathers, draws on much hitherto unpublished material. He emerges here as a warm-hearted enthusiast whose legacy survives in the development of the Australian continent.
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- Publisher
- Collins Harvill
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780002723404
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (147 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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