Lure of the Southern Seas: The Voyages of Dumont D'Urville, 1826-1840 by Susan Hunt, Martin Terry and Nicholas Thomas

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Published in association with the 2002 exhibition Lure of the Southern Seas: The Voyages of Dumont D'Urville, 1826-1840, held at the Museum of Sydney.

Lure of the Southern Seas is about the voyages of the great French navigator Jules Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville (1790 - 1842) who journeyed to the Pacific three times. The first was as second-in-command to Louis Isidore Duperrey on the Coquille in 1822-1825. His two voyages in command, in 1826-1829 and 1837-1840, were the zenith of French maritime exploration, colonial ambition and scientific endeavour. (Introduction)

Dumont d’Urville is remembered for his audacious act of pilfering the Venus de Milo for France, for solving one of the greatest maritime mysteries by discovering the fate of the La Pérouse expedition, and for laying claim to Antarctica.