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552 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780375422225
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication date: 01 October 2008
Description
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. ...
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552 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780375422225
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication date: 01 October 2008
Description
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. ...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings