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Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks Book
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Product Description
When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist, Joseph Banks. Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science? Patricia Fara reveals the existence, barely concealed under Banks' and Linnaeus' camouflage of noble Enlightenment, of the altogether more seedy drives to conquer, subdue and deflower in the name of the British Imperial state.
- 1840465735
- 9781840465730
- Patricia Fara
- 4 November 2004
- Icon Books Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 192
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