Two Voyages to the South Seas
by Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville
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Rear-Admiral Dumont d'Urville, the French James Cook, was a brilliant sailor who made two great scientific and exploratory voyages to the Pacific and the Antarctic.Tags
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Dumont d'Urville is a great character whose story and achievements deserve to be better known by Australians and New Zealanders in particular. His writing (and Helen Rosenman's introduction) reveals the complex human behind the explorer, scholar and husband/father. But I'm glad he's not my boss.
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- Nonfiction, Travel, History
- DDC/MDS
- 919.04 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica and on extraterrestrial worlds
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- G420 .D84 .D862513 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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