Daniel Solander
Collected Correspondence 1753-1782
- Paperback
524 pages
- Release Date
1 May 1995
Summary
Some 180 letters written either by or to the Swedish naturalist and pioneer are reproduced here.Daniel Solander, the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist and traveller, was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and one of the earliest collectors in New Holland. For many years a colleague of Joseph Banks, he sailed to the Pacific with Banks and James Cook in the Endeavour in 1768. With Banks, he described and classified more than one thousand new species. Solander’s letters off…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522846362 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052284636X |
| Author: | Per Tingbrand, Edward Duyker |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 524 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 May 1995 |
| Weight: | 704g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 157mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Miegunyah Press, series 2 |
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About The Author
Per Tingbrand
Edward Duyker was born in Melbourne to a Dutch father and a Mauritian mother. After working as an intelligence analyst with the Department of Defence and teaching at Griffith University he settled in Sydney in 1984 as a full-time writer.Per Tingbrand is the author of several publications on Solander and has travelled extensively, often under sail.
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