Nature's Investigator. The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805. Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves
Canberra, Australian Biological Resources Study, 2001. 'In 1801, at the age of 29, Robert Brown was chosen by Sir Joseph Banks as the botanist to accompany Matthew Flinders in the "Investigator" on the first circumnavigation of the Australian continent ... This book provides the first complete transcript of his diary..... More