Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 1

'This book is an essential work of reference for all scholars of eighteenth-century science and exploration.' Archives of Natural History 'Chambers's collections of Banks's letters not only provide an invaluable scholarly resource, but give a wonderful flavour of the world that produced Banks, and which he then proceeded to shape.' Times Literary Supplement 'The scholarship of the editor and the impressive production of the publisher do ample credit to the global legacy of Banks and both are worthy of the warmest congratulation.' Archives of Natural History 'will be invaluable to anyone who is interested in the thinking behind Britain's worldwide expansion, and the establishment of the second British Empire in the late eighteenth century.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

• Volume 1 Letters 1768-1782 Volume 2 Letters 1783-1789 Volume 3 Letters 1789-1792 Volume 4 Letters 1792-1798 Volume 5 Letters 1798-1801 Volume 6 Letters 1801-1805 Volume 7 Letters 1805-1810 Volume 8 Letters 1810-1821 Correspondents include: Jean Nicolas Sebastien Allamand, John Allen, Dr James Anderson, William Anderson, John Arnold, Sigismund Bacstrom, Sir George Baker, Sarah Sophia Banks, Robert Banks-Hodgkinson, Sir John Barrow, John Bayly, Ferdinand Bauer, John Albert Bentinck, Joseph Billings, Sir Charles Blagden, James Blake, Gregory and John Blaxland, William Bligh, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Comte de Bougainville, Matthew Boulton, Robert Brooke, Robert Brown, Dr Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Comte de Buffon, William Bulmer, the Bunbury Committee, Peter Perez Burdett, Edmund Burke, George Caley, William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck (Duke of Portland), Charles Clerke, James Cook, the Reverend William Cooke, John Wilson Croker, Alexander Dalrymple, Jean-Nicolas Demeunier, Jan Deutz, George Dixon, Peter and John Dollond, James Douglas (Earl Of Morton), the Reverend John Douglas, Dr Alexander Duncan, Dr John Duncan, Henry Dundas, Andrew Dury, Richard Cadman Etches, Johann Christian Fabricius, Thomas Falconer, William Augustus Fawkener, Matthew Flinders, Johann Georg Adam Forster, Johann Reinhold Forster, John Fothergill, Benjamin Franklin, Dr Hugh Gillian, Peter Good, John Gore, John Grant, Henry Gregory, Margaret Eleanor Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville (Lord Grenville), Eleanor Gyles, James Harris (Earl Of Malmesbury), Edward Hasted, John Hawkesworth, Dr Thomas Henry, John Hope, Richard Howe (Earl Howe), Nathaniel Hulme, John Hunter, William Hunter, Jan Ingen-Housz, Charles Jenkinson (Baron Hawkesbury and Earl Of Liverpool), Samuel Johnson, James King, John King, Philip Gidley King, Johann Gerhard Koenig, Robert Kyd, Benjamin Lacam, David Lance, Comte de Lauraguais, James Lee, James Lind, John Gideon Loten, Joao De Loureiro, Andrew Lumisden, Si