Jonathan Keates

The fount of all knowledge

At last this great physician and founder of the British Museum gets the biographer he deserves in James Delbourgo

issue 27 May 2017

  • Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

    James Delbourgo

    Allen Lane, pp. 469

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