1995, ISBN: 9780522846362

Melbourne, Australia: the Miegunyah Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Press), 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Black Boards with Gilt Lettering on Spine. Original, Excellent Condi… Mehr…

Melbourne, Australia: the Miegunyah Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Press), 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Black Boards with Gilt Lettering on Spine. Original, Excellent Condition/very good. Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (1733 - 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil. In February 1763, Solander began cataloguing the natural history collections of the British Museum, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June the following year. In 1768, Solander gained leave of absence from the British Museum and with his assistant Herman Spöring accompanied Joseph Banks on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific Ocean aboard the Endeavour. They were the botanists who inspired the name Botanist Bay (which later became Botany Bay) for the first landing place of Cook's expedition in Australia. Solander helped make and describe an important collection of Australian plants while the Endeavour was beached at the site of present-day Cooktown for nearly seven weeks, after being damaged on the Great Barrier Reef. These collections later formed the basis of Banks' Florilegium. Solander's return to Britain with Cook and Banks made him the first Swede to circumnavigate the globe. Edward Duyker (1955 -) is an Australian historian, biographer and author born in Melbourne. Duyker's books include several ethno-histories - Tribal Guerrillas (1987), The Dutch in Australia (1987) and Of the Star and the Key: Mauritius, Mauritians and Australia (1988), and numerous books dealing with early Australian exploration and natural science, among them the biographies of Daniel Solander, Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, Jacques Labillardière, François Péron and Jules Dumont d'Urville. 466pp. DJ not clipped, no inscriptions, red silk bookmark ribbon, clean and as new. [Click through 'Buy it !' (no obligation) to see image scan of actual book], the Miegunyah Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Press), 1995, 3<

1995, ISBN: 9780522846362

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Carlton South : Miegunyah Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall., Miegunyah Press, 1995, 5