Book ID: 109625
Orchard, Anthony E. and T. A. Orchard
The Australian botanical journals of Allan Cunningham: the later King expeditions February 1819 - September 1822. Publ. 2018. illus. IV, 431 p. Hardcover.
This is the second in a series of books transcribing for the first time the full text of the botanical journals kept by the pioneering botanist Allan Cunningham in Australia and linking them to surviving plant specimens in London and Australian institutions . . . Cunningham also discussed the geology, mineralogy and zoology of the country he encountered, contacts with various groups of native inhabitants, and encounters with other visitors to the coast, the Macassan trepangers.' - (back cover).