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Edward Duyker
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere was one of the great traveller-naturalists of the eighteenth century. This work offers a comprehensive study of this naturalist, revealing a committed republican who was shaped…
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Hubert Sagnieres
Daring French Explorations is an exceptional homage to adventure.
Intrepid French mariners-including legendary explorers Laperouse, Bougainville, and Dumont d'Urville, and unsung sailors La Barbinais, Pages, and Roquefeuil-embark readers on sixteen…
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Explorer Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France’s Captain Cook. Born less than a year aft er the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He…
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The first full account of the man who reached Tasmania before the English.
French explorer Marion Dufresne was the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expedition was the…
The first publication of the lively recollections of Emily Skinner, immigrant and miner’s wife on the Ovens and Buckland goldfields.
Emily Skinner, vibrant, observant, eternally young-at-heart, emigrated from Britain to…
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In 1791, Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed from France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La Perouse. Although d'Entrecasteaux failed to discover the fate of La Perouse, his voyage had…
In 1800 Francois Peron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin’s expedition to Australian…
This is the first full biography of an important eighteenth-century naturalist, a colleague of Banks on the Endeavour.
Nature’s Argonaut is the first full biography of this important eighteenth-century naturalist…
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Duyker Edward
Explorer Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France’s Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was…
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