Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-Francois de La Perouse more books like this

by John Dunmore

After James Cook, La Perouse is undeniably the major explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century. Leaving France in 1785, his expedition spent two and a half years in the Pacific before vanishing totally after its departure from New South Wales in early 1788. The mystery of La Perouse's disappearance and its solution almost 40 years later ...

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French Botany in the Enlightenment: The Ill-Fated Voyages of La Pa(c)Rouse and His Rescuers more books like this

by Surendra Kumar Mishra, Roger Lawrence Williams

This volume completes a trilogy meant to be a commentary on the botanophilia that captured the literate public in 18th-century France. Enthusiastic public support for any governmental initiative likely to expand botanical knowledge was an expression of immense curiosity about the natural world beyond Europe, which extended into a curiosity about ...

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From Hudson Bay to Botany Bay: The Lost Frigates of Laperouse more books like this

by Russell C Shelton

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Laperouse more books like this

by Sir Ernest Scott

We can well understand that a lad whose head was full of thoughts of voyaging and adventures, was not, as a schoolboy, very tame and easy to manage. He is described as having been ardent, impetuous, and rather stubborn. But there is more than one kind of stubbornness. There is the stupid stubbornness of the mule, and the fixed, firm will of the ...

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