Journal Voyage:Sci Tra 1790-18 (Hardcover)


John White was Surgeon General on Captain Arthur Phillip's ship, leading the First Fleet in 1788. White's journal describes and illustrates the many new plants he discovered in New South Wales, and provides valuable ethnographic information, making this one of the first descriptions of the environment and indigenous people at the time of Britain's colonization of Australia. The volume is richly illustrated with sixty-five plates of plants, birds, and animals and will be useful to researchers interested in biodiversity as well as scientific travel.

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John White was Surgeon General on Captain Arthur Phillip's ship, leading the First Fleet in 1788. White's journal describes and illustrates the many new plants he discovered in New South Wales, and provides valuable ethnographic information, making this one of the first descriptions of the environment and indigenous people at the time of Britain's colonization of Australia. The volume is richly illustrated with sixty-five plates of plants, birds, and animals and will be useful to researchers interested in biodiversity as well as scientific travel.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Routledge

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

December 2003

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

2003

Authors

Series editors

Dimensions

234 x 156 x 41mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

496

ISBN-13

978-0-415-28932-0

Barcode

9780415289320

Categories

LSN

0-415-28932-7



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