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A Voyage round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766-1769 (Paperback)
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A Voyage round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766-1769 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
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This is an English translation from 1772 of the famous Voyage
Autour du Monde (1771) by Louis de Bougainville (1729 1811), French
admiral and explorer. The contemporary fascination with global
circumnavigation created demand for this translation by John
Reinhold Forster (1729 98), which includes many annotations and
comments from the translator himself on de Bougainville's
observations. Describing all of de Bougainville's adventures on the
voyage (which took place between 1766 and 1769) as well as his
descriptions of local flora and fauna, the gripping tale includes
such interesting passages as the unmasking of the botanist's valet
as a woman (the first known to have circumnavigated the globe); de
Bougainville's famous descriptions of Tahitian society; and graphic
descriptions of the discomforts and perils of sea voyaging in the
eighteenth century. It includes a copy of the original
eighteenth-century plot of the route, and several plates
representing original sketches from the trip.
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