The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus

Wilfrid Blunt

Frances Lincoln, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 264 pages

A lively and readable life of Linnaeus, author of Systema Naturae, charting his rise from being a poor student in Sweden to eventually founding the Royal Academy of Sciences.

About the author

Wilfrid Blunt was for many years senior drawing master at Eton. An Associate of the Royal College of Art and a fellow of the Linnean Society, he was the author of a number of biographies and books on European art and botany: his The Art of Botanical Illustration has become a standard work of reference. He died in 1987.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus
• Author: Wilfrid Blunt
• Contributor: William Thomas Stearn
• Edition: 3, illustrated
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2001
• ISBN: 0711218412, 9780711218413
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Environmentalists & Naturalists; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology