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HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES PAR DUMONT D'URVILLE, D'ORBIGNY, EYRIES ET A. JACOBS
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Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville, Alcide Dessalines D'Orbigny, Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries |
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Paperback |
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£55.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
110803912X |
ISBN 13: |
9781108039123 |
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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
Pub. date: |
24 November, 2011 |
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Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration |
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760 |
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A mid-nineteenth-century, illustrated collection produced in Paris to showcase the achievements of French explorers for a general readership. |
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This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the work of recent French explorers for a readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands. Volume 4 was prepared by Alfred Jacobs (1802-62), an archivist and palaeographer, drawing heavily on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries (1767-1846). Eyries was a founder member of the French Geographical Society and a member of the Asiatic Society, trained in botany and mineralogy, an accomplished linguist and seasoned traveller, who wrote, edited and translated a substantial number of works on geography, travel and exploration. Like earlier volumes in Furne's collection, this account of Asia and Africa takes the form of a fictionalised journey, making use of a wide range of additional sources to give readers as complete a picture as possible. This 1859 edition is illustrated with twenty-two engravings. |
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25 b/w illus. 1 map |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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