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Author:: Sagnières, Hubert, author.
Title:: Daring French explorations : trailblazing adventures around the world: 1714-1854 / Hubert Sagnières ; foreword, Edward Duyker ; translation from the French, Florence Brutton.
Edition:: English-language edition.
Publisher:: Flammarion,
Description:: 399 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 33 cm
Subject:: Discoveries in geography--French.
Voyages around the world--History--18th century.
Voyages around the world--History--19th century.
Explorers--France--History--18th century.
Explorers--France--History--19th century.
Voyages and travels.
Discoveries in geography.
Explorers--France.
Other Authors:: Duyker, Edward, writer of foreword.
Brutton, Florence, translator.
Other Titles:: Routes nouvelles, Côtes inconnues. English
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.
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 This handsome volume--featuring many previously unpublished illustrations, engravings, and maps--traces their extraordinary scientific, diplomatic, or commercial expeditions, which significantly marked the history of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.
ISBN:: 9782080428455
2080428454
OCLC:: (OCoLC)1393206242
Locations:: USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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