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Looking For La Perouse [Laperouse]: D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793 by Frank Horner
SKU TBM9780522844511
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780522844511
Author: Frank Horner
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
Place: Carlton VIC
Year: 1995
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384 pages
Period: 18th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Date due slip and borrower card pocket on inside page. Some marks on book foredges. Dust jacket has general ceasing. Tear at back cover left edge has been repaired. Please see images for more information.
In the third year of the French Revolution, the National Assembly sent the d'Entrecasteaux expedition to the Pacific to search for the missing explorer La Perouse. Like the nation itself, the expedition was divided by politics; there were both republicans and monarchists aboard. And besides servicemen, there were civilians—the naturalists, whose interests often cut across those of mariners.
The archives of the expedition, which include a wealth of candid and amusing private journals, reveal how d'Entrecasteaux, despite tensions that strained personal friendships, commanded enough respect to keep the expedition operational. Though it found no trace of La Perouse it made valuable discoveries in geography, botany and anthropology.
The voyage, however, ended at Sourabaya in an irreversible division with d'Entrecasteaux dead, the arch-monarchist d'Auribeau in command and the French receiving after two years their first news from home of regicide, terror and war.
The narrative concludes by tracing the adventurous paths taken by survivors to reach home, and the stratagems they used to save the records of the expedition. (publisher blurb)
Includes bibliography and index.
Looking For La Perouse [Laperouse]: D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793 by Frank Horner
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