http://www.theleevalley.co.uk Learn more about the Lea Valley Nursery Industry Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:53:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.theleevalley.co.uk/people/joseph-banks-1743-1820.html http://www.theleevalley.co.uk/people/joseph-banks-1743-1820.html#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:13 +0000 admin http://www.theleevalley.co.uk/?p=134 Joseph Banks was a renowned English botanist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his legendary voyage to the South Pacific (1768-71). Throughout his travels Banks discovered well over a thousand unrecorded plant species, bringing them to the attention of the Western world and confirming his place as one of the greatest botanists of his generation. [...]]]> http://www.theleevalley.co.uk/people/joseph-banks-1743-1820.html/feed 0