Further reading

Listed below are some books and web sites that may be of interest. Many of these books are on sale at the Museum's bookshop. 

Please note that The Natural History Museum is not responsible for the content of external web sites.

    Specialist books:

Arthur MacGregor  'Sir Hans Sloane - collector scientist antiquary'

• Gavin De Beer 'Sir Hans Sloane & the British Museum'

    Specialist books:

• Harold Carter  'Joseph Banks, 1743-1820'
• D J Carr, editor  'Sydney Parkinson'
• J C Beaglehole, 'Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery'
  Re-issued by Boydell & Brewer.

• Patrick O'Brian - 'Joseph Banks' 
• Margaret Stevens - 'First Impressions' 
• Marlene Norst  'Ferdinand Bauer - The Australian Natural History Drawings'

• The State Library of New South Wales' Joseph Banks web site 
• Banks' entire Endeavour journal is available for downloading from the State Library of New South Wales' website 
• Hunterian Museum's Cook pages

    Darwin's voyage and life:

• Janet Browne 'Darwin Voyaging'
• Desmond and Moore - 'Darwin: a biography'
• Colin Patterson - 'Evolution'
• Steve Parker - 'Charles Darwin and Evolution' 

• Charles Darwin - 'On the Origin of Species' 
• Charles Darwin - 'The Voyage of the Beagle' 
• Burkhardt (editor) - 'Darwin's letters, a selection' 

• Complete texts of Darwin's major works
• BBC Evolution homepage contains background on Darwin, Evolution and suggestions for further reading

• Sandra Knapp - 'Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon'

• Follow the writer Tim Severin as he re-creates some of Wallace's journeys - includes pages on Wallace himself

    Specialist books:

• Margaret Deacon - 'Scientists and the Sea, 1650-1900'

• Eric Linklater - 'The Voyage of the Challenger'