Voyages of discovery : three centuries of natural history exploration / by Rice, A. L.

Table of Contents: “…Voyage to Jamaica / Hans Sloane -- Surveying Ceylon / Paul Hermann, Johan Gideon Loten, Pieter de Bevere -- Sojourn to Surinam / Maria Sibylla Merian -- Travels in North America / William Bartram -- Pacific crossing / James Cook, Joseph Banks, Sydney Parkinson -- Return to the South Seas / James Cook, Johann Forster, George Forster -- Charting Australia / Matthew Flinders, Ferdinand Bauer -- Sailing with the Beagle / Charles Darwin -- Amazonia and beyond / Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates -- Fathoming the deep / The Challenger Expedition.…”