Histoire Générale Des Voyages Par Dumont d'Urville, d'Orbigny, Eyriès Et A. Jacobs: Volume 2, Voyage Autour Du Monde [French]

by Alfred Jacobs, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Jean-Baptiste-Benoît Eyriès, et al.

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...

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Language: French
• ISBN: 1139107550
• ISBN13: 9781139107556
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press