Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage Cut & Polished Written by horticulturalist Riz Reyes

Written by horticulturalist Riz Reyes and fully illustrated by Sara Boccaccini Meadows

with balanced proportions and a nod to the past

owls regurgitate anything they can't digest

and Africa

Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage Cut & Polished Written by horticulturalist Riz ReyesThe extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cooks first voyage, published for the first time in book form Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never been seen or