Ernest Scott worked as a journalist on the London Globe before migrating to Australia in 1892, where he joined the staff of The Herald newspaper in Melbourne. The publication of Terre Napoleon (1910) and Laperouse (1912) established his reputation as a historian. La P rouse, Jean-Fran ois de Galaup, comte de (1741-1788) was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. He studied in a Jesuit college and entered the naval...