Keep him as a curiosity
Steven Shapin: Botanic Macaroni, 13 August 2020
The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World
by Toby Musgrave.
Yale, 386 pp., £25, April 2020,978 0 300 22383 5 Show More
by Toby Musgrave.
Yale, 386 pp., £25, April 2020,
“... following his return from the circumnavigation was the great inflection point of Banks’s career. Toby Musgrave, in his new biography, marks that point by telling the story differently before and after. From Banks’s birth to his return on the Endeavour, the mode is chronological and the manner is heroic narrative. Afterwards, the story is thematically ... ”
