Banks - Grantlee Kieza

Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Language: English
Keywords: Australia Discovery Joseph Banks Natural Philosophy Royal Society

Written by Grantlee Kieza
Read by Patrick Harvey
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Banks
By: Grantlee Kieza
Narrated by: Patrick Harvey
Release date
20-11-2020
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
14 hrs and 17 mins
Publisher
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Categories
Biographies & Memoirs

By award-winning best-selling writer Grantlee Kieza, Banks is a rich and rollicking biography of one of Britain’s most colourful and successful scientists.

Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery.

Explorer, naturalist and president of Britain’s Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks was a larger-than-life character best known for his promotion of science. In 1768 Banks joined Captain James Cook’s expedition to the South Pacific. The 30,000 specimens he brought back generated enormous interest, as did the sometimes racy written account of the journey, which chronicled his frequent amorous exploits.

Banks’ passion for the new and unusual flora of Australia led him to recommend Botany Bay to parliament as an excellent place for a penal settlement, despite the fact the soil was poor and there was no fresh running water, but he later became the foremost expert on everything Australian.

©2020 Grantlee Kieza (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd