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Voyages To The South Seas - Clode Danielle

Voyages To The South Seas

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Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2007
The Miegunyah Press (Verlag)
978-0-522-85264-6 (ISBN)
CHF 44,90 inkl. MwSt
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Presents an epic narrative encompassing a remarkable period of French and Australian history - when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens. This is the story of noble men impoverished by their passion and nobodies who made their names through physical courage and intellectual achievement.
"Voyages to the South Seas" is an epic narrative encompassing a remarkable period of French and Australian history - when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens. Tracing the often tragic voyages of Bougainville, Laperouse, D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet, d'Urville and others to Australia from 1768-1828, "Voyages to the South Seas" documents the changing society that launched these ambitious endeavours and the scientific discoveries they brought back. Australia may have been colonised by England but for many years, by sheer weight of specimens and scientific documentation, Australia's biodiversity belonged to France. "Voyages to the South Seas" is the story of noble men impoverished by their passion and nobodies who made their names through physical courage and intellectual achievement. It is the story of the young men who risked their lives for adventure and excitement but above all, in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

Dr Danielle Clode is a science writer fascinated by scientific history. Her love of the Australian landscape, and exploration, was born from a childhood spent sailing along the east coast with her parents on a gaff-rigged yawl. Her previous books include Killers in Eden (Allen & Unwin 2001 now a ABC TV documentary). Danielle's environmental history, As if for a Thousand Years (VEAC) is due in July 2006 while Continent of Curiosities: A voyage through Australian Natural History (CUP) is due in September 2006. Danielle researched Voyages to the Great South Land while a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. She has previously been the Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellow at Museum Victoria and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where she completed her DPhil in zoology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2007
Zusatzinfo 32 colour illustrations
Verlagsort Carlton
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 0-522-85264-5 / 0522852645
ISBN-13 978-0-522-85264-6 / 9780522852646
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