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SIR JOSEPH BANKS, ICELAND AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC
17721820

JOURNALS, LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

THIRD SERIES
NO. 30

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SIR JOSEPH BANKS, ICELAND
AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC
17721820

JOURNALS, LETTERS AND
DOCUMENTS

Edited and annotated with an introduction by

ANNA AGNARSDTTIR

University of Iceland

Published by
Routledge
for

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
LONDON
2016

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Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland, and the North Atlantic 17721820: journals, letters, and documents / edited by Anna Agnarsdottir, Hakluyt Society.

pages cm. (Hakluyt Society, third series; 30)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-908145-14-7 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4724-7782-8 (ebook) 1. Banks, Joseph, 17431820. 2. Banks, Joseph, 17431820 Correspondence. 3. Naturalists Great Britain Biography. 4. Natural history Great Britain History. 5. Natural history North Atlantic Region History. 6. Natural history Iceland History. I. Anna Agnarsdottir, editor.

QH31.B19S57 2016

508.092dc23

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2015029924

ISBN: 978-1-908145-14-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-4724-7782-8 (ebk)

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In memory of Harold B. Carter
and of my parents, Agnar Kl. Jnsson and lf Bjarnadttir

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Sir Joseph Banks in 1773, shortly after his return from Iceland, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The globe refers to his travels. The inscription on the letter reads CRAS INGENS ITERABIMUS AEQUOR, which may be translated as Tomorrow we set out once more upon the boundless main. NPG 5868. Courtesy of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery.

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