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An Anthology of French Scientific Prose

Dunmore, John

Science & Math

Hutchinson

Who's Who in Pacific Navigation

Biographies & Memoirs

Melbourne University Press

Storms and Dreams: Louis de Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman

Community & Culture

Nonsuch

<p>Covering from the 16th to the early 20th centuries, profiles explorers, missionaries, traders, whalers, naturalists, and other Europeans who have, by accident or design, contributed significantly to the knowledge of the Pacific and its lands. The articles vary in length from a paragraph to a couple pages, depending on the subject's importance and the available information. The bibliography is by European country. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Reference

Univ of Hawaii Pr

Pacific Explorer: The Life of Jean-Francois de La Perouse, 1741-1788

Dunmore Press

Pacific explorer: The life of Jean-François de La Peŕouse, 1741-1788

Naval_Institute_Press

During the second half of the 18th century, Britain and France despatched a number of major expeditions to the Pacific. The greatest contribution by far was that of James Cook, but the voyages of Bougainville, Surville and Marion du Fresne had each played an important part in Pacific exploration. After Cook's death, France, with the active support of Louis XVI, organized a large-scale expedition to the Pacific, planned to last four years, concentrating on areas of the Pacific left unexplored or inadequately explored by Cook. It was to be led by an experienced and highly-regarded naval officer, Galaup de La Perouse. All the major French scientific societies and savants of the times co-operated in drawing up the instructions and, overseas, such men as Joseph Banks willingly assisted. La Perouse sailed with two ships, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, in August 1785, making for Tenerife, Brazil and Chile. He went on to Easter Island, the Hawaiian group and the northwest coast of America, endeavouring to complete the work of James Cook. The French spent some time in California, the first foreign visitors to the new Spanish missions. They then crossed the Pacific to China, sailed north to the Philippines and Formosa, and to the unknown waters around Korea, Sakhalin and Kamchatka. Having received new instructions, La Perouse sailed south towards the Samoan group and to Botany Bay in New South Wales where he arrived on 26 January 1788, a few days after Captain Phillip and the First Fleet. He left on the 10 March on the first leg of the voyage. At this point, the expedition vanished. The disappearance of the two French frigates was a mystery that remained unsolved for almost 40 years. Meanwhile, an account of the expedition had been published, based on La Perouse's journal which had been sent back from various ports of call. It contained his comments on his discoveries and on the various settlements he visited, and a wealth of information on native people, their customs and language, and reports by the naturalists on board his ships.

The Journal of Jean-Francois de Galaup de La Perouse, 1785-1788, Volume II (Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society,)

Memoirs

Ashgate Pub. Co

Jean-Francois De Galup, Comte De La Perouse is second only to James Cook in his historical significance and was the major explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century. Perouse's life has been the subject of prolonged study by John Dunmore, the acknowledged world expert, and this fresh and lively biography reveals the epic adventure of an extraordinary life. As a naval officer La Perouse captured two English forts in Hudson Bay in 1782 and was recognised by both sides for his courage and humanity. Three years later the King of France put him in charge of an expedition to rival James Cook's. Perouse's two 500 ton ships left France in August 1785 replete with a mathematician and three naturalists. They mapped the American north west from Alaska to California and the unknown seas north of Japan and the Siberian coast. During the voyage messengers were sent overland back to France with reports and discoveries. Just five days after the First Fleet landed at Botany Bay, Australia, La Perouse arrived and uneasy pleasantries were exchanged. Shortly after Perouse set sail towards the Solomon Islands and he and his ships were never seen again. A romantic man with the saddest marriage story, a great soldier, an inspired leader and a man with a mysterious end, Perouse's story has now finally come to light with this major new biography.

Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-Francois de la Perouse

Exisle Publishing

Witty, charming, and fiercely intelligent, Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729–1811) managed, in the course of a long life, to play a part in nearly every facet of eighteenth-century life and culture. Storms and Dreams is a lively, authoritative recounting of Bougainville's adventures and achievements, which ranged from seamanship and soldiering to mathematics and navigation. Dunmore follows Bougainville from the French and Indian War, during which he commanded a unit in the defense of Quebec City, to his circumnavigation of the globe in 1766. During that trip, he became one of the first Westerners to visit Tahiti; on his return, he published a book about the island that contributed greatly to Tahiti's lasting reputation as a paradise of noble savages. In his last years, Bougainville served in the senate under Napoleon and was made a member of the Legion of Honor.The first biography of Bougainville in English, Storms and Dreams opens a window to a remarkable eighteenth-century life—and to the greater world of the Enlightenment.

Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis de Bougainville (Volume 1) (Lives of Great Explorers)

History

Americas

University of Alaska Press

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