Sex, Botany and Empire : The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks

By Patricia Fara and patricia-fara

Book Overview

Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism--to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840464887
• ISBN13: 9781840464887
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.2" x 0.8" x 4.6"