| Histoire Générale Des Voyages Par Dumont d'Urville, d'Orbigny, Eyriès Et A. Jacobs 4 Volume Set Contributor(s): Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César (Author), D'Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines (Author), Eyriès, Jean Baptiste Benoit (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108039138 ISBN-13: 9781108039130 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $260.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration |
| Physical Information: 5.7" H x 6.7" W x 9.9" (9.25 lbs) 2662 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This four-volume, illustrated collection, issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century, showcased the work of recent French explorers for a popular readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands. It contains lightly fictionalised versions of accounts by three influential geographers and naturalists. Volumes 1 and 2, by the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), cover his first two voyages to the Pacific; originally published in 1832, the printings reissued here date from 1863 and 1859. Volume 3 contains an account by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-57) of his travels in South America in 1826-33, supplemented by material on North America and Iceland. It was first published in 1841; this posthumous 1859 printing was updated by Alfred Jacobs (1802-70). Volume 4 (1859), substantially updated by Jacobs, is based on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyri s (1767-1846), a founder member of the French Geographical Society. |