| Histoire Générale Des Voyages Par Dumont d'Urville, d'Orbigny, Eyriès Et A. Jacobs: Volume 4, Voyage En Asie Et En Afrique d'Aprés Les Récits Des Dern Contributor(s): Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César (Author), D'Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines (Author), Eyriès, Jean Baptiste Benoit (Author) |
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ISBN: 1139107577 ISBN-13: 9781139107570 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Language: French Published: December 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Eyri s (1767-1846). Eyri s 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. |