Two Voyages to the South Seas Tapa blanda - 1992

Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Dumont d'Urville's two epic voyages to the South Pacific and Antarctica, virtually unknown in English-speaking countries. 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. The first, 1826-29, solved the 40-year-old mystery of the disappearance of La Perouse. The coup of the second voyage, 1837-40, was d'Urville's discovery, ahead of the American Wilkes and the British Ross expeditions, that Antarctica was a continent. He charted and conducted a risky landing on the coast he named Terre Adelie after his wife. He was twice in New Zealand. In 1840, to his chagrin, when he was in the South Island, Britain proclaimed sovereignty over both islands to thwart French plans to settle the Banks Peninsula. D'Urville possessed enormous vitality, curiosity, perseverance and scepticism.… Leer más

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Near Fine. 1992. First thus.. Paperback. 0522844324 . Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829, Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, New Guinea, Australia, South East Asia, Tasmania, Antarctica, New Zealand, Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the corvettes ASTROLABE 1826-1829, ASTROLABE and ZELEE 1837-1840 - Translated from the French and retold by Helen Rosenman. With many illustrations and maps, a near fine copy. ; 230 x 155mm; xxxvi, 304 pages .

Carlton Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ...Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829, Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, New Guinea, Australia, South East Asia, Tasmania, Antarctica, New Zealand, Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the corvettes Astrolabe 1826-1829, Astrolabe and Ze´le´e 1837-1840 / Jules S.-C. Dumont D'Urville ; translated from the French and retold by Helen Rosenman." Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 - 1842) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. Abridged version of a two volume account.

Honolulu,, 1992. First Paperback Edition.. May show some very slight shelf wear but content fine and unread. � . 8vo. pp 304. Large format paperback. Illustrated in b/w throughout. ISBN: 0522844324

Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1992. paperback in very good condition. 304 pages, b/w illusts and maps

Melbourne, V.I.C., Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1992 The cover has a little wear, and the page edges are lightly tanned. There in a pencil inscription in the bottom-right corner of the first page. 304 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Signed by Author (?). Paperback. Very Good. Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992. 1st translated ed.. Paperback large wide octavo (with flaps), very good condition, black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear, minor foxed spots edges & endpapers, bottom corners last three pages little creased, owner's name front flyleaf. 304 pp. During two voyages across the South Seas in the corvettes Astrolabe (1826 - 1829), and Astrolabe and Zelee (1837 - 1840), the French explorer Captain Jules S. C. Dumont d'Urville visited Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, the Straits of Magellan, Chile, New Guinea, South East Asia, Tasmania, Antarctica and Torres Strait. Helen Rosenman was so interested by his story, she has translated from the French and rewritten the tale from d'Urville’s official accounts to create an exciting narrative account of these explorations.

Published by Melbourne University Press, 1992. 8vo. pp. xxxvi + 304 with black & white illustrations and maps. Original quality pictorial softcover wrappers.Very good copy.