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Special issue : French exploration / guest editor: Nicolas E. M. Bigourdan

Record no:

71612

Call no:

919.4 SPE

Author:

Bigourdan, Nicolas ; Bloomfield, Noelene ; Stanbury, Myra ; Jones, Diana S. ; Breelle, Dany ; Brown, Peter ; Australian Association for Maritime History

Publisher:

Fremantle, W.A.: Australian Association for Maritime History

Year:

2017

Series:

Great Circle ; v. 39, no. 2

Description:

xviii, 155 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Australia - Discovery and exploration - French;
Explorers, French - Australia;
French voyages - Australia;
Baudin, Nicolas, 1754-1803;
Saint Alouarn, Louis de, 1738-1772;

Freycinet, Louis De, 1779-1842;
Arago, Jacques, 1790-1855;

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Isbn:

0156-8698

Notes:

Also copy held as journal: GREAT CIRCLE. 2017 v.39, no. 2 [Kept Maritime Archaeology at P387.5]

Type:

Book

Contents:

Articles : A brief chronology of the French exploration of Australia / Nicolas Bigourdan -- Overview, France's quest for Terra Australis : strategies, maladies and triumphs / Noelene Bloomfield -- Louis Aleno de Saint Alouarn (1738-17720) A forgotten

18th-century French explorer / Myra Stanbury -- A lasting legacy: the Baudin Expedition in Australian waters (1801-1803) / Diana S. Jones -- The Hydrographical work of the engineer-geographers of the Baudin Expedition and the rise of Louis Freycinet as the cartographer of the voyage / Dany Breelle -- Jacques Arago : the artist as a social scientist in a world in transition / Peter Brown.

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Result	Links	Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
1		Main Library	Western Australian Museum	919.4 SPE	On Loan