17192 Sold Out and sodomite

and sodomite

rooting her firmly in her time and yet showing us that she was indeed the first 19th century novelist

Two sections of gorgeous color plates of period illustrations

This volume is the first comprehensive selection

reissued with corrections and an Afterword

17192 Sold Out and sodomiteIntroduced by Peter Campbell. Joseph Banks [1743 1820] was a promoter of science, an explorer and naturalist, and a longtime presdient of the Royal Society. O'Brian makes Banks's life as exciting as the lives of his own fictional characters. Indeed, in his introduction Campbell points out that Banks seems a combination of Maturin and Aubrey in one man. O'Brian lets Banks speak for himself, drawing on original texts, as well as pulling from years of