Item #145939 Nature's Investigator. The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805. Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Matthew FLINDERS, Robert BROWN.
Nature's Investigator. The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805. Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves
Nature's Investigator. The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805. Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves
Nature's Investigator. The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805. Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves
Nature's Investigator. The Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805. Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves

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.

Quarto, xii, 666 pages with 4 full-page illustrations, 41 maps, 8 pages of colour plates (totalling 33 images) plus endpaper maps.

Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy.

'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 ... supplemented with a detailed interpretation of Brown's notes, and supporting extracts from the journals of Flinders, Good, and other contemporaries' (rear cover blurb).

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