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020 _a9781139056540 (ebook)
020 _z9781108031875 (paperback)
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_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
100 1 _aBougainville, Louis de,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA Voyage round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766-1769 /
_cLouis de Bougainville, Translated by John Reinhold Forster.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1772.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (544 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Maritime Exploration
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aThis is an English translation from 1772 of the famous Voyage Autour du Monde (1771) by Louis de Bougainville (1729-1811), French admiral and explorer. The contemporary fascination with global circumnavigation created demand for this translation by John Reinhold Forster (1729-98), which includes many annotations and comments from the translator himself on de Bougainville's observations. Describing all of de Bougainville's adventures on the voyage (which took place between 1766 and 1769) as well as his descriptions of local flora and fauna, the gripping tale includes such interesting passages as the unmasking of the botanist's valet as a woman (the first known to have circumnavigated the globe); de Bougainville's famous descriptions of Tahitian society; and graphic descriptions of the discomforts and perils of sea voyaging in the eighteenth century. It includes a copy of the original eighteenth-century plot of the route, and several plates representing original sketches from the trip.
700 1 _aForster, John Reinhold,
_etranslator.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108031875
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pMaritime Exploration.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139056540
999 _c515443
_d515441