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    The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian who Shaped the World

    By Toby Musgrave

    Yale, £20, hardback, 386 pages

    Joseph Banks can certainly lay claim to having shaped the world in all manner of ways. One of the crew of James Cook’s 1768 voyage to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia, he was the

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