Download or read book The Botanical Endeavour written by Joan B. Webb and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A source book on the nineteenth century not only on the development of independent botany in Australia but also on the lives of principal players and the fate of their collections. Illustrated with portraits and maps, and covering botanical work executed in several colonies from botanically-minded William Dampier to Joseph Maiden.