Daring French Explorations: Trailblazing Adventures around the World : 1714-1854 - Couverture rigide

Sagnières, Hubert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 2080428454 ISBN 13 : 9782080428455

Editeur : FLAMMARION, 2024

Synopsis

Daring French Explorations is an exceptional homage to adventure. Intrepid French mariners-including legendary explorers Lapérouse, Bougainville, and Dumont d'Urville, and unsung sailors La Barbinais, Pagès, and Roquefeuil-embark readers on sixteen voyages around the world from 1714 to 1854. A selection of firsthand accounts culled from their maritime travelogues recounts the trials and tribulations the explorers encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories. Their unfiltered observations on wide-ranging themes-from geopolitics and commerce to climate change and global cultures-resonate with contemporary issues. This handsome volume-featuring many previously unpublished illustrations, engravings, and maps-traces their extraordinary scientific, diplomatic, or commercial expeditions, which significantly marked the history of world exploration. Driven by a spirit of adventure and a passion for expeditions, inveterate collector Hubert Sagnières has drawn from his extensive library to curate this unprecedented introduction to the glory days of French naval history. Award-winning author Edward Duyker is a fellow at the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Après Routes nouvelles, côtes inconnues, Hubert Sagnières invite à un voyage au coeur de l'exploration arctique accompagné de ses amis Mike Beedell, explorateur photographe et Éric Brossier, explorateur scientifique. Hubert Sagnières est compagnon de La Guilde, Fellow Member de l'Explorers Club de New York et Auditeur de l'Académie de Marine à Paris.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Sixteen French explorers embark readers on their voyages around the world, to witness the trials and tribulations encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories.

Set sail to Tahiti with Louis-Antoine de Bougainville or to Antarctica with Jules Dumont d'Urville. Learn about Russian domination of Alaska in the eighteenth century, or how the Dutch traded Manhattan to the British for the precious nutmeg plantations on a tiny Indonesian island. Beautifully illustrated with some 300 documents-including previously unpublished or rare texts, unfiltered extracts from travel journals, maps, and illustrations from centuries-old sketchbooks-readers discover these intrepid travelers and their extraordinary scientific, military, or commercial voyages, which have significantly marked the history of world exploration and contributed to our modern understanding of geography, cartography, climate change, and global cultures.

Unfiltered extracts from travel journals, original works by each explorer, and previously unpublished personal correspondence plunge readers into the heart of their adventures. These rare first-person historical accounts provide enlightening insight into their thoughts, concerns, and contemporary attitudes-touching on themes such as colonization, religion, trade, and geopolitics-with relevance that strikes the chords of modern-day issues. These rare first-person accounts provide enlightening insight into historical attitudes on themes such as colonization, religion, trade, and geopolitics-with uncanny relevance to modern-day issues.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: FLAMMARION
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2080428454
• ISBN 13: 9782080428455
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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