La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de

A Voyage Round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe

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Produktbeschreibung

La Perouse (1741-88), the French explorer, led an expedition which was lost in the Pacific in 1788. These volumes, first published in English in 1799, and based on documents sent back by La Perouse from Australia before his disappearance, provide a fascinating account of the discoveries of the expedition.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1560g
• ISBN-13: 9781108031837
• ISBN-10: 1108031838
• Artikelnr.: 33627381

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's preface; Editor's preface; Introduction by the editor; Decree
of the National Assembly, February 1, 1791; Decree of the National
Assembly, April 22, 1791; General list of the officers, men of letters,
artists, seaman and marines, embarked on board the frigates la Boussole and
l'Astrolabe; Private instructions from the king to the sieur de la Pérouse;
Extract from the general instructions of Mr. de la Pérouse, June 26, 1785;
Notes geographical and historical, to be subjoined to the king's private
instructions to Mr. de la Pérouse; Letter from the marshal de Castries to
Mr. de Condorcet, perpetual secretary to the academy of sciences; Memoir
drawn up by the academy of science for the astronomers and others, embarked
under the command of Mr. de la Pérouse; Questions proposed by the society
of medicine to the navigators accompanying Mr. de la Pérouse; Experiments
to be made for preserving the water put on board from corruption,
communicated to Mr. de la Pérouse, by the abbé Tessier; Memoir for the
direction of the gardener in the duties he has to perform on his voyage
round the world, by Mr. Thouin; Catalogue of goods and merchandise put on
board the vessels under the order of Mr. de la Pérouse, for the purpose of
barter, and making presents; Summary of the instruments of astronomy,
navigation, natural philosophy, chemistry, &c. &c. for the use of the men
of science and artists employed in the voyage of discovery; Catalogue of
books of voyages, astronomy, navigation, physics, natural history,
delivered to Mr. de la Pérouse, for the use of the officers and men of
science embarked under his command; Narrative of an interesting voyage of
the frigate la Princess, from Manilla to San Blas, in 1780, 1781; Extract
from the account of a voyage made in 1779, by Don Francisco Antonio
Maurelle, ensign of a frigate in the service of the king of Spain, to
explore the western coast of North America: 1. Object of the expedition; 2.
Description of the island of St. Catherine; 3. Description of Conception;
4. Description of Easter Island; 5. Excursion of Mr. de Langle into the
interior parts of Easter Island; 6. Departure from Easter Island; 7.
Departure from the Sandwich Islands; 8. Continuation of our stay at Port
des Français; 9. Description of Port des Français; 10. Departure from Port
des Français; 11. Description of Monterey Bay; 12. Astronomical
observations; 13. Departure from Monterey; 14. Arrival at Macao; 15.
Arrival at Cavite; 16. Departure from Cavite.