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New section of short comments by Mark Twain
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Boston: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the Merrymount Press
17192 Sold Out New section of short commentsIntroduced by Peter Campbell. Joseph Banks [1743 1820] was a promoter of science, an explorer and naturalist, and a longtime presdient of the Royal Society. O'Brian makes Banks's life as exciting as the lives of his own fictional characters. Indeed, in his introduction Campbell points out that Banks seems a combination of Maturin and Aubrey in one man. O'Brian lets Banks speak for himself, drawing on original texts, as well as pulling from years of