An account of a voyage in search of La Pérouse, Volume 1: undertaken by order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and performed in the years 1791, 1792, and 1793

Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Pérouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (1755–1834) took part in the search that departed in 1791 from Brest in two ships, Recherche and Espérance. In the space of three...

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1. Verfasser: La Billardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou de 1755-1834 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Maritime exploration
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Zusammenfassung:Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Pérouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (1755–1834) took part in the search that departed in 1791 from Brest in two ships, Recherche and Espérance. In the space of three years, the expedition's naturalists collected numerous specimens, with Labillardière focusing on Australian flora, but their missing countrymen were never found. Notwithstanding the later confiscation of the scientific collections by the British - Sir Joseph Banks helped to secure their return - Labillardière was able to publish this narrative to great acclaim in 1800. Reissued here is the English translation of the same year, complete with a volume of finely engraved plates. The work is especially notable for its descriptions and illustrations of the indigenous peoples of Australasia. Volume 1 covers the expedition from September 1791 through to January 1793, when it reached Tasmania
Beschreibung:Originally published in London, printed by J. Debrett in 1800. - First published in French as Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse in Paris by H. J. Jansen in 1799
Beschreibung:1 online resource (lxii, 464 pages)
ISBN:9781107447387
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107447387

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