Histoire gňřale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyris̈ et A. Jacobs. Volume 2, Voyage autour du Monde / Jules-Sb̌astien-Cšar Dumont d'Urville, Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyris̈, Alfred Jacobs.
This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the adventures and discoveries of recent French explorers. In Volumes 1 and 2 the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790?1842) presents a lightly fictionalised account based on his...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Cambridge) |
|---|---|
| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1859.
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], |
| Series: | Cambridge library collection. Maritime Exploration.
|
| Summary: | This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the adventures and discoveries of recent French explorers. In Volumes 1 and 2 the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790?1842) presents a lightly fictionalised account based on his first two voyages to the Pacific on board the Coquille (renamed L'Astrolabe for the second voyage). This was intended for a wider audience and offered at a more affordable price than the large-format scientific expedition reports produced for the French government. The work, illustrated with engravings, was originally published in 1832, but the printings by Furne reissued here date from 1863 and 1859 respectively. Volume 2 describes the voyage from French Polynesia back to France via Australia, New Zealand and Cape Horn. It includes d'Urville's discovery of the location in the Solomon Islands where the explorer Jean-Francois La Přouse's ships had mysteriously disappeared in 1788. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (592 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781139107556 1139107550 1108039103 9781108039109 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139107556 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Vendor-supplied metadata. |