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A Voyage to the South-Sea and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714 - With a Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an Account of the Settlement, Commerce, and Riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay (Paperback)
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A Voyage to the South-Sea and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714 - With a Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an Account of the Settlement, Commerce, and Riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
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The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were
drawn by the French explorer Amedee-Francois Frezier (1682-1773).
In 1712, he was sent on a spying mission to the Spanish ports and
fortifications of South America, travelling along the Pacific
coastline as far as Callao, the port of Lima. His maps were later
used by two of France's most famous explorers, Bougainville and
Laperouse. Frezier also took a keen interest in botany, mineralogy,
economics and anthropology. His most celebrated achievement is the
introduction to Europe of the Chilean strawberry, which was used to
create the hybrid species known today as the garden strawberry.
Frezier's observations and illustrations of the people, plants and
animals he encountered on his South American travels are given in
this popular account, published in Paris in 1716 and reissued here
in the English translation of 1717.
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