Collection: Reference

Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Java, bringing back over 1300 species that had n...

Examines the life and work of one of Australia's earliest colonial artists who worked in Australia from 1815 to 1822 and was responsible for the most extravagantly illustrated account of the colony, published in London in 1824-25.

In 1930, two years before his death at the age of fifty-two, Lionel Cecil Jane published this translation of the Columbus journal of the first voyage with the Argonaut Press of London. L. A. Vigneras now republishes the translation with some alterations, many footnotes, and a foreword of his own....