But generally, Patrick Harvey was a good narrator of the story.

By award-winning bestselling writer Grantlee Kieza, Banks is a rich and. If they are wrong, they lessen our trust in the narrator. Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery Sir Joseph. Join us for a special in person event with Brisbane author Grantlee Kieza OAM, award winning journalist and author of 17 acclaimed books including recent. Is there no producer present to make sure the narrator gets these things right? - surely it would be easy, with search engines, to say place names properly. RT GrantleeKieza: Hi folks - this is the wonderful ABC promotion for my new book on Mary Reibey - the woman on our 20 note - she escaped a death sentence iaged 14, arrives in Sydney as a convict a year later and became this country's first great businesswoman ReadABCBooks HarperCollinsAU. Grantlee Kieza, author of critically acclaimed best-selling biographies of John Monash, Banjo Paterson, Joseph Banks, Lachlan Macquarie and Henry Lawson reveals the extraordinary life of the man who gave an Australian icon its wings. The narrator made quite a few howlers in pronunciation. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Australian and British history. I found the non-Cook sections, before and after the voyages, more interesting, and they certainly showed what a major figure Banks was, not only in science but in public affairs generally, and as a wealthy benefactor for many people and organizations. It was not quite as interesting as the others because I knew so much about Captain Cook's voyages, and Banks' important part in them - but all that had to be told of course. I have enjoyed two other biographies by Grantley Kieza, those of Macquarie and Paterson, and this one is of the same high standard.

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