African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1767–1820

<p>This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767–1820 for the first time publishing this globally scattered material in one place thereby revolutionizing its availability and understanding of the activities of a key figure who helped organize and publish a series of missions to penetrate the African interior mainly from West Africa and by crossing the Sahara from Cairo and Tripoli. </p><p>Banks was a founder in 1788 of the African Association which mounted many of these missions including those of Mungo Park to explore the River Niger and J.L. Burkhardt explo