Looking for La Perouse : D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793
Horner, Frank1995
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La Perouse had been overdue from the Pacific since 1788, and the party sent out by the revolutionary government in 1791 to find him and to continue his work was one of the largest scientific expeditions ever mounted in France.
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Imprint:
Carlton Miegunyah Press 1995
Collation:
317 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
The Assembly Orders a Rescue Mission - A Commodore's Career - Commissioning - To Van Diemen's Land: a Change of Plan - Van Dieman's Land: a Lucky Error - The Admiralties: the Diversion - Amboina: Disunity abroad - Esperance Bay: Danger and Disappointment - Van Diemen's Land again: 'the First state of Society' - Tongatapu: Gaiety and Violence - New Caledonia: 'this Barbarous Land' - Santa Cruz, Solomons, New Guinea: the Last Surveys - To Sourabaya: the Leader's End - Sourabaya: in Dutch Hands - Going Home, or into exile - Retrieving the Records - Successes and Failures
ISBN:
0522844510 (hbk)
Dewey class:
910.9164 LOO
Local class:
910.9164
Language:
English
Subject:
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788Pacific Ocean Region -- Discovery and explorationFrench explorers -- Pacific Ocean RegionFrench explorers -- TasmaniaEntrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d', 1737-1793 -- Voyages -- JourneysAborigines -- Tasmania -- History
BRN:
81148
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Reference | 910.9164 LOO | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |