Terre Napoleon: Australia through French Eyes: 1800-1804 by Susan Hunt and Paul Carter

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition, which produced these remarkable images. A voyage born of revolutionary times, these images are what remains of Napoleon's ambition to establish a new scientific empire. (Trove)