Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS
Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global
network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how
he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and
with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook. He was
familiar with most natural philosophers in Britain and across
Europe, many of whom consulted his unrivalled collections of
Pacific natural history and ethnology, and who shared specimens and
information with him regarding the region. Banks also advised the
British government and commercial enterprise in the development of
successive ventures to India, the Far East and the Pacific. His
career demonstrates how a private individual could influence global
exploration in the Georgian era. Banks's correspondence is one of
the great primary sources for studying the Pacific region during
this important period of exploration and colonial expansion. His
Indian and Pacific correspondence has not previously been published
in a fully edited thematic series. This critical edition of over
2,000 letters uses material from archives around the world.
Together with The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks
1765-1820, this edition establishes Pickering & Chatto as the
field leader in the publication of Joseph Banks's edited papers and
ensures that editorial standards are applied consistently across
his published papers. It will be important for scholars researching
the History of Science, Empire Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies
and Travel Literature.
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