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The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768
This is the first English translation of the journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Although he published an account of his voyage in 1771, and despite wide interest and controversy in Europe following reports of his reception in Tahiti and life on the island, the journal itself was not published until 1977.The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville follows his progress across the Pacific and northwards via the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, endeavouring to complete the inadequate charts of the time and leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which is Bougainville Island.The Pacific Journal is published with extensive editorial notes and a full explanatory introduction. Also included are journals of other participants in the expedition.
A Voyage Round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766-1769
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. Describing de Bougainville's adventures on the voyage, it includes graphic descriptions of the discomforts and perils of sea voyages in the eighteenth century.
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768
This is the first English translation of the journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Although he published an account of his voyage in 1771, and despite wide interest and controversy in Europe following reports of his reception in Tahiti and life on the island, the journal itself was not published until 1977. The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville follows his progress across the Pacific and northwards via the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, endeavouring to complete the inadequate charts of the time and leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which is Bougainville Island. The Pacific Journal is published with extensive editorial notes and a full explanatory introduction. Also included are journals of other participants in the expedition.
Bougainville
Serait-on citoyen si l’on ne préférait la satisfaction d’être utile à l’honneur d’être admiré ? La vie de Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) est un roman d’aventure. Militaire loyaliste, il a tout connu : les salons de la Pompadour ; la guerre au Canada en compagnie des Iroquois ; la création d’un établissement français aux îles Malouines ; le fameux voyage d’exploration scientifique rapporté dans Voyage autour du monde ; la préparation d’une expédition vers le Pôle Nord ; le commandement du port de Brest tenu par les Comités révolutionnaires ; l’emprisonnement sous la Terreur, échappant de peu à la guillotine pour connaître ensuite les plus grands honneurs de la République. Fait comte d’Empire par Napoléon, il dirigera, peu de temps avant sa mort, la commission chargée d’étudier l’intérêt, pour la Marine de guerre, du premier sous-marin de l’histoire... Et donnera son nom à la fleur violette du bougainvillier.
Storms and Dreams
Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769.
