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Daring French explorations : trailblazing adventures around the world: 1714-1854 / Hubert Sagnières ; foreword, Edward Duyker ; translation from the French, Florence Brutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sagnières, Hubert, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Routes nouvelles, Côtes inconnues. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Discoveries in geography--French.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Voyages around the world--History--18th century.
- Voyages around the world.
- Voyages around the world--History--19th century.
- Explorers--France--History--18th century.
- Explorers.
- Explorers--France--History--19th century.
- Voyages and travels.
- Explorers--France.
- journeys.
- Physical Description:
- 399 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 33 cm
- Edition:
- English-language edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Flammarion, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Daring French Explorations is an exceptional homage to adventure. Intrepid French mariners--including legendary explorers Lapérouse, Bougainville, and Dumont d'Urville, and unsung sailors La Barbinais, Pagès, and Roquefeuil--embark readers on sixteen voyages around the world from 1714 to 1854. A selection of firsthand accounts culled from their maritime travelogues recounts the trials and tribulations the explorers encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories. Their unfiltered observations on wide-ranging themes--from geopolitics and commerce to climate change and global cultures--resonate with contemporary issues. This handsome volume--featuring many previously unpublished illustrations, engravings, and maps--traces their extraordinary scientific, diplomatic, or commercial expeditions, which significantly marked the history of world exploration"--Amazon.com.
- Notes:
- "Featuring Bougainville, Lapérouse, Dumont D'Urville, and many more."
- Simultaneously published in French as Routes nouvelles, Côtes inconnues ©Éditions Flammarion, S.A.. Paris, 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 2080428454
- 9782080428455
- OCLC:
- 1393206242
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